Subject: bug#10144: 24.0.91; `pop-up-frames' with dedicated windows is broken: `C-x C-f'

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:56:22 -0500

>> If the user uses find-file rather than find-file-other-window, she
>> presumably knows what she's doing.
> When using C-x C-f.  But what about the hundred or so calls of
> `find-file' in current Emacs sources?

I think at least 90% of them are bugs in any case (they're typically
wrapped in the infamous save-window-excursion) and making them pop up
a new frame is not significantly better than making them signal
an error.

        Stefan