Re: Bug in clone-indirect-buffer and clone-indirect-buffer-other-window

[Juri Linkov]

> I had not noticed that clone-indirect-buffer-other-window asked the
> user to specify the name of the buffer to start with.  That seems like
> a big inconsistency.  Normally the only difference between foobar and
> foobar-other window is where to display the results.
>
> I see that clone-indirect-buffer-other-window is documented wrongly in
> the manual, based on the assumption that it does what its name
> suggests.
>
> So I think the right thing is to replace its definition with this:
>
> (defun clone-indirect-buffer-other-window (newname display-flag &optional 
> norecord)
>   "Like `clone-indirect-buffer' but display in another window."
>   (interactive
>    (progn
>      (if (get major-mode 'no-clone-indirect)
>        (error "Cannot indirectly clone a buffer in %s mode" mode-name))
>      (list (if current-prefix-arg
>              (read-string "BName of indirect buffer: "))
>          t)))
>   (let ((pop-up-windows t))
>     (clone-indirect-buffer newname display-flag norecord)))

This has only one drawback of being backward incompatible.
I don't know how many users rely on the current function arguments.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/