From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: C-x 2 and C-x 3 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:38:50 -0700 Message-ID: <41E34F4EFE594CC59FC0C235ECDB055B@us.oracle.com> References: <87wrbs5vsx.fsf@gnu.org><4EA7EBCF.70207@harpegolden.net><87sjmf7rip.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es><87obx33pss.fsf@mail.jurta.org><81zkgmpljv.fsf@gmail.com> <87lis6pi4b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319729958 10664 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2011 15:39:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:39:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Juri Linkov' , emacs-devel@gnu.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Llu=EDs'?= , 'Stefan Monnier' , 'David De La Harpe Golden' To: "'Stephen J. Turnbull'" , "'Jambunathan K'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 17:39:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJS2z-0003oE-Ck for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:39:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJS2y-0006xH-Nv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJS2s-0006ws-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJS2r-0001Cu-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:52202) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJS2r-0001Cq-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id p9RFd0fT003824 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:39:01 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9RFcw7o021882 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:38:59 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt119.oracle.com (abhmt119.oracle.com [141.146.116.71]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p9RFcrxD029764; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:38:53 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:38:52 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87lis6pi4b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Thread-Index: AcyUvVc5MneP8+jERYKHW6RDNO9YHAAAFk4A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4EA97B15.019C,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145659 Archived-At: > Copying is an implementation detail. No, it has nothing to do with implementation. It is a user-level operation. Just like using `C' in Dired is a user-level copy operation. > The purpose of the command is to make a new window. Almost, but not quite. The purpose of the command, what the command does, is to make a new window...that is a copy of the selected window: same buffer. The command copies the selected window. It does _not_ just make a new window. It makes a new window with the same buffer (and same window-point value etc.). And that's the point.