[comp.emacs.xemacs] Re: open just a single window

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. I am CCing this to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org, in case anybody there cares. To recap for those folks, Javier is annoyed that starting XEmacs with "xemacs *.c *.h" brings up a split window. He wants a single window to start with. On 30 May 2001 at 10:32:29 -0700, derethor(a)yahoo.com (Javier Loureiro Varela) wrote: It looks like this behavior is hardcoded into XEmacs. The function command-line-1, which is defined in startup.el, processes the command line arguments. The last thing it does is this: (when file-p (setq file-p nil) (incf file-count) (setq arg (expand-file-name arg dir)) (cond ((= file-count 1) (find-file arg)) (noninteractive (find-file arg)) (t (find-file-other-window arg))) So if you ask for more than one file on the command line, it uses find-file-other-window to fetch all but the first. That function is defined in files.el. It calls switch-to-buffer-other-window, which binds the variable pop-up-windows to t before calling pop-to-buffer. So binding pop-up-windows to nil on the command line won't work, since switch-to-buffer-other-window will rebind it. If the call to find-file-other-window was replaced with a call to find-file-noselect, then you would get a single window, you would be left looking at the *first* file specified on the command line instead of the last one, and you wouldn't have to watch all of the files you specified go flashing by as they load (which is especially annoying if you use font-lock). -- Jerry James