bug#10729: 24.0.93; On MS-Windows: emacsclientw.exe -n -c does create a new frame, but does not always display the requested file or the requested directory (24.0.92 does)

[martin rudalics]

> When you request a new frame with -c or -t, you're passing
> instructions to server.el about how to display the buffer. But
> server.el also obeys the setting of server-window. If you look at
> server-switch-buffer, you'll see that, when the buffer is already
> shown in a window, and server-window is nil, it simply does
>
>  (select-window win)  ; win is the window displaying test.txt
>  (set-buffer next-buffer)  ; next-buffer is the one containing test.txt
>
> so no new frame is created.

Just to make sure: Is the `set-buffer' needed because win's buffer might
not be current?

> That's not a bug. For some reason I still
> have to investigate, the buffer shown in win is then replaced by
> *scratch* (this is puzzling).

When is it replaced?  After exiting `server-switch-buffer'?

martin