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Re: clone-buffer in Info


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: clone-buffer in Info
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:03:34 +0100
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)

> I often use `M-x clone-buffer' in Info, to be able to view different nodes at
> the same time. In my own setup, Info windows are always dedicated, which is
> (apparently) why I can do that. The nodes can be in different manuals.
>
> Just now, for instance, for my reply to thread "questions about blink-cursor
> mode", I compared Info nodes (emacs)Hooks and (elisp)Hooks in separate 
windows,
> just by using `clone-buffer'.
>
> I never realized that this possibility was only because I use dedicated 
windows.
> I found that out by accident, by trying the same thing in `emacs -Q'. There,
> it's not possible - when you navigate to a node, the cloned buffer follows.

Here I don't have any problems cloning any Info buffers and navigating
them independently within their respective windows.  AFAICT this issue
was never related to dedicated windows - at least until recently.

martin




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