From: Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:40:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jxty4gg.fsf@emacswiki.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1040228111929.247C-100000@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:05:32 +0000 (GMT)")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> I think a(n easy) method of opening a second *info* buffer is a Good
> Thing. Perhaps M-n `clone-buffer' isn't the most elegant command around,
> but it's got to be better than M-x rename-uniquely etc., from a user's
> point of view.
Heh. :) Many have complained about similar functionality in M-x
shell, for example (and written code where M-x shell starts *another*
shell instead of switching to the existing shell buffer). Inspired by
the M-x shell interface, other code behaves similarly: M-x
sql-something switches to the existing SQL buffer instead of creating
a new one. M-x ielm does the same. Etc.
What I'm trying to say is that yes, the interface is not elegant.
But it seems that both variants are equally unpopular, so we just
need to pick one, stick to it, and make a generic solution the
problem for all these instances. Renaming the buffer before calling
the function again was deemed to be good enough a long while back (I
guess because we were not sure that using a prefix was better or
possible at all).
I'm sure that some users will be glad if you can devise a generic
and elegant solution to this usability problem. :)
Alex.
--
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2004-03-05 10:05 ` Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Alan Mackenzie
2004-03-09 15:40 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-10 11:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-03-12 5:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-12 16:34 ` Karl Berry
2004-03-14 2:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-14 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-14 18:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-14 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-14 18:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-14 19:58 ` Karl Berry
2004-03-15 3:14 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-15 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-15 23:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-16 5:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-15 23:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-16 12:09 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-14 13:39 ` Karl Berry
2004-03-14 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-15 4:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-12 5:22 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-12 1:24 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-15 5:05 ` Juri Linkov
2004-03-15 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-15 17:06 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-15 17:08 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-16 7:02 ` Juri Linkov
2004-03-12 2:45 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-09 23:40 ` Alex Schroeder [this message]
2004-03-12 10:57 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-25 4:32 ` Juri Linkov
2004-04-25 13:37 ` Karl Berry
2004-06-17 16:33 ` C-h C-i Juri Linkov
2004-06-17 10:29 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-18 7:16 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-18 8:18 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-18 14:55 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-18 12:33 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-18 19:00 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-19 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-19 0:19 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-20 0:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-20 1:17 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-20 1:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-20 1:51 ` One possible bug-tracking system Karl Fogel
2004-06-20 13:23 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-06-20 12:42 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-20 19:39 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-06-20 13:38 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-21 9:31 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-21 9:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-22 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-21 12:02 ` Arne Jørgensen
2004-06-22 23:16 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-21 18:26 ` Karl Fogel
2004-06-21 22:28 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-22 2:00 ` Marcelo Toledo
2004-06-22 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-20 19:18 ` C-h C-i Richard Stallman
2004-06-20 20:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-06-20 23:15 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-20 23:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-06-22 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-22 2:48 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-21 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-22 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-22 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-26 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-22 2:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-06-22 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-18 21:51 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-14 21:55 ` Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Stefan Monnier
2004-03-16 12:09 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-15 6:28 ` Juri Linkov
2004-03-16 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-10 3:37 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-10 18:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-10 18:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-11 14:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-03-14 5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-14 9:48 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-14 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-16 12:09 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-15 18:18 ` Matthew Mundell
2004-03-15 5:18 ` Juri Linkov
2004-03-15 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-15 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-15 14:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-15 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-15 20:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-15 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-16 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-16 7:05 ` Juri Linkov
2004-03-16 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-18 7:21 ` Juri Linkov
2004-03-19 5:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-18 18:37 ` Karl Berry
2004-03-18 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-19 14:11 ` Karl Berry
2004-03-19 17:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-21 4:58 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-19 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-19 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-19 17:47 ` Karl Berry
2004-03-20 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-21 5:00 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-21 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 5:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-22 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 5:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-22 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-23 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-21 17:18 ` Karl Berry
2004-03-22 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-22 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-23 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-23 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-23 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-24 5:34 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-22 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-22 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-23 0:20 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-23 2:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-23 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-20 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-20 18:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-19 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-19 15:15 ` Karl Berry
2004-03-20 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-20 14:15 ` Karl Berry
2004-03-20 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-20 19:27 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-21 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-22 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-21 5:00 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-21 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-20 18:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-21 5:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-22 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-15 4:56 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-10 18:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-25 10:15 Alan Mackenzie
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