On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:45:29AM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> >
> > It turns out that the preference lives in category "browsing", as opposed
> > to
> > say "windows".
> >
> >
> -- I guess it could be either but it's also a browser function.  If there
> is already a usable browser on the desktop for whatever you're asking for,
> implementors, senders, hierarchy browser, package browser, MC browser,
> etc., it'll bring forth that browser rather than open yet another, using
> more memry, and that you'll just have to close someday.
> 
> Oh, if you search preferences for "Windows" it's right there..
> 
> I'm curious whether, when you say, "open..." | Transcript, and you get the
> same Transcript instead of a new one, does that annoy you too?

It's probably mainly a matter of habit and training, but no that does not
annoy me.

I am accustomed to thinking of the transcript as a single thing that can
be written to from anywhere, somewhat like a stdout stream. I am also
accustomed to thinking of the transcript window itself as being the thing
that gets written to. So if I tell the system to open that singleton window,
and it is already open, I am not surprised that the system refuses to make
two instances of something that is supposed to only have one.

On the other hand, if I tell the system to inspect something, I expect it
to open an inspector on that thing. When I ask the system to this, and it
decides to do something else instead, I am annoyed.

Dave