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

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:48:47 +0100

>> 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)

After a short look at most 10% are within a `save-window-excursion'.
The rest is just "show me that file in some window".

 > and making them pop up
 > a new frame is not significantly better than making them signal
 > an error.

We needed some sort of advise what program modes should typically use in
this case.

martin