Re: one file per frame -- customization possible?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Reitter <r8@davids-welt.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:36:20 +0000
> 
> I would like to tell emacs to display each new buffer in a new frame.

One way is to set the value of special-display-regexps to a regexp
that matches any buffer name.

> When
> I switch buffers, this should amount to bringing the according frame in
> front.

I think Emacs does that automatically.  In any case, you could use
"C-x 5 o".

> Closing a frame should amount to closing the buffer.

You could set up the list in delete-frame-functions to do that.

> More temporary buffers that contain messages belonging to the actual
> document shouldn't be displayed in separate frames - split windows would do.

Then make special-display-regexps a bit less trivial ;-)

> Essentially, what I would like to have, is a one-document-per-window scheme,
> just like in pretty much all OS X applications (and most Windows
> applications). 

It's IMHO a bad idea to try to tweak Emacs's look and feel in such a
fundamental way.  You are welcome to try, but I'd warn you that you
will meet many obstacles down the road.  It's just not the way Emacs
was designed to work.