RE: how to supress pop up frames on emacs22 on WinXP

[Drew Adams]

> Completion buffer pops up in it's own frame which I have to close by
> clicking [x] button using mouse.  This behaviour is very annoying.  I
> tried following in my .emacs but it still continues.
>
> (setq pop-up-frames nil)
> (setq pop-up-windows nil)
>
> I am using "GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)" on Windows XP
> SP2.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Does this also happen if you use emacs -Q (to bypass your init file)?

What is, in fact, the value of pop-up-frames? What happens if you set
pop-up-frames to t interactively?

I suspect that something that your .emacs is doing or loading after the
(setq pop-up-frames nil) is setting pop-up-frames to non-nil.

BTW, the problem of your having to close the frame manually is a bug (still
existing, AFAIK). After completion is done, the *Completions* frame should
disappear.

(If you for some reason do want a separate *Completions* frame, but just
don't want to be obliged to close it manually, try Icicles:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles.)