Re: User option dnd-open-file-other-window has no effect

[Sven Joachim]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>     There is a user option, dnd-open-file-other-window, which should
>     control the behaviour of drag-n-dropping files onto an Emacs frame.
>     I customized it to t...
>     However, that had no effect. :-(
>
> If the code in x-dnd-drop-data is going to always bind
> this variable, then it is useless to make it customizable.

Yes, that was the main point of my bug report ;-)

> There are two cases: dropping in a specific window, and dropping
> elsewhere on the frame.   Perhaps we should change one 
> of those two cases NOT to bind dnd-open-file-other-window,
> or change it somehow.
>
> Which is the case that you want to customize?

Hmm, initially I had only thought of dropping in a specific window and wanted
to customize that.  Only now I realize that dropping on, e.g., the titlebar 
makes
a difference.  I would suggest to change the first case (dropping in a window)
not to let x-dnd-drop-data bind dnd-open-file-other-window.

There is also a special case which I see now.  Dropping in the minibuffer gives
an error:

Error: (error Cannot switch buffers in minibuffer window)

In that case, x-dnd-drop-data should probably bind dnd-open-file-other-window
to t.

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 Sven Joachim