Excel 2011 is doing the same thing for me as well, so perhaps not a BBEdit issue?
On Thursday, March 27, 2014 4:07:53 PM UTC+11, Jay Tan wrote: > > Exact same issue here. Unchecking "Open documents into the front window > when possible" did seem to help for maybe two minutes, but it's still > unchecked and I'm having the same issue again now. > > Mavericks, BBEdit 10.5.9 here, on an RMBP with Cinema Display. > > > > On Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:03:09 AM UTC+11, Brian Colavito wrote: >> >> When I first installed BBEdit I almost canned it because it was driving >> me crazy. Let me explain. I'm a programmer and usually have lots of >> windows open, and I have two monitors. A typical use case is: >> * Eclipse or some other code editor on monitor 1 with my web site source >> code >> * Web browser on monitor 2 running my web site >> >> I do this so I can compare the behavior of the web site with its source >> code. >> >> Sometimes I'll want to quickly open a file and not have to deal with the >> monster that is eclipse, so I'll throw BB Edit into the mix on monitor 1. >> Then I'll be done with that task and want to go back to using Eclipse. >> >> Here's what was happening: >> 1) I have Eclipse and BB Edit on monitor 1, and the browser is open on >> monitor 2 >> 2) I bring Eclipse to the front on monitor 1 by clicking on it, and let >> BB Edit go to the background >> 3) I click on the browser in monitor 2 >> 4) BBEdit suddenly pops back to the front of monitor 1 and obscures >> Eclipse >> >> Again, this was frustrating me no end...I was like BBEdit GO AWAY but it >> kept coming back on top of other windows. No other program I have >> installed behaves this way. As far as the other applications I mentioned: >> Eclipse, Browser...it doesn't matter. It could be any combination of >> applications and they are all impacted the same way by BB Edit. >> >> I finally figured out to uncheck "Open documents into the front window >> when possible" in Application settings and that...kind of worked. Two >> things now: >> 1) I will occasionally still see the unwanted behavior, regardless of >> this setting being checked. I can't explain what causes the occasional >> change in behavior. >> 2) I'm not convinced this is the intended behavior of this setting. >> Perhaps it's an unintended side effect? >> >> IMO, setting or no, this shouldn't be the default behavior. If there's >> another setting that I missed that can fix this I can't find it. >> >> - iMac 2013 edition >> - Mavericks >> - BBEdit 10.5.8 >> >> >> -Brian >> > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
