RE: Why does Emacs make it difficult for me to have two frames open thesame buffer?

[Drew Adams]

> I have 2 frames. I switch the buffer in first frame to buffer 
> A. When I try to switch the buffer in the second frame to 
> buffer A, Emacs brings the first frame forward. What I want 
> is to open buffer A in both frames. Is there a setting that 
> makes Emacs bring the other frame forward when buffer A is 
> already opened in it?

You don't give enough info to understand your situation.  It doesn't sound like
you are starting from `emacs -Q', so I suspect some setting in your init file or
your `custom-file' is determining the behavior you see.

Try from `emacs -Q', and if you still see the problem, give us a recipe, step by
step.  If not, then try to narrow down your init file to discover what is
causing that behavior.

When I do this, I see no such behavior:

emacs -Q

`C-x 5 2' to get another frame.

`C-x C-f foo.el' in one frame.

`C-x b f TAB RET' in the other frame.