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Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version)
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:29:45 +0000 (GMT) |
On 9 Mar 2004, David Kastrup wrote:
Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>> [Re: My proposed patch to the Emacs manual, documenting the command
>> `clone-buffer'.]
>> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> [Alan Mackenzie:]
>> > I disagree. I find clone-buffer exceptionally useful, as it is
>> > the only way I know of having two *info* buffers displaying
>> > different info files at the same time.
>> >The recommended method is to create one, do M-x rename-uniquely, then
>> >switch to some other buffer and do M-x info again. This works for
>> >all sorts of special facilities.
>> Ah, right! :-) That's anything but user-friendly, though. It's also
>> difficult to work out from the documentation. I couldn't find any
>> hint of this procedure in the Info info pages, which is the first
>> place I looked, a year or three ago.
>Is the prefix argument of the following more user-friendly?
>m runs the command Info-menu
> which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `info'.
>It is bound to m.
>(Info-menu MENU-ITEM &optional FORK)
It is friendlier. Sadly, it's not documented in the Info manual (at
least, it wasn't last time I looked).
[ .... ]
>Actually, it might be even more useful if the "d" command for going
>to a new directory would also have this FORK functionality, since
>_that_ is the point where one usually wants to start a new info
>path. And while we are at it, "t" could also make use of a FORK
>prefix.
Yes, why don't we just FORK the whole lot of them? n, p, u, m, d, f, l,
i, t, <CR>, as well as retaining M-n?
>David Kastrup
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Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Alan Mackenzie, 2004/03/09
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), David Kastrup, 2004/03/10
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- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/12
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/13
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Karl Berry, 2004/03/12
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/13
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/14
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/14
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/14
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/14
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Karl Berry, 2004/03/14
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/14