how to use org to open w3m url in a new window

Question

I often use C-c l key strike to store link in w3m and use C-c C-l to save link in org

but when I click this link, the current org window jump to w3m window

I need the current org window not change and open the link to w3m window in a new window

Answer 1

You should be able to get the behaviour you want by setting the w3m-pop-up-windows variable to t. There's also w3m-pop-up-frames in case you want OS windows rather than Emacs windows. You may have to ensure that w3m-use-tab is set to nil as it didn't seem to work in the same way when I had it enabled.

One of Emacs' best features is that it is self-documenting, and contains help commands that let you access the documentation for any function or variable that is used by Eamcs. In this case I just used C-h f to lookup the documentation for the browse-url function which is what Emacs uses for asking a browser to display a URL. Right at the bottom of this it mentions the browse-url-new-window-flag which sounds like it does exactly what you want. You can then either click on the link to read about that variable.

A quick experiment showed that it does the right thing for graphical browsers, it doesn't work with w3m. I then did C-h f w3m-browse-url to find the w3m specific documentation and it describes the w3m-pop-up-windows and w3m-pop-up-frames variables which do work as expected.

There are many more commands and key bindings for accessing Emacs' help system which is described in the help section of the Emacs manual. FWIW I also find these functions greatly enhanced when using an incremental completion framework such as Ido (which comes with with Emacs), Ivy (my personal choice), or Helm (which do not).