From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:18:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20180113181726392510131@bob.proulx.com> References: <86po6eke67.fsf@zoho.com> <86inc6kbyb.fsf@zoho.com> <867esmk28h.fsf@zoho.com> <87r2qtd9u2.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180113142406060431793@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515892661 20541 195.159.176.226 (14 Jan 2018 01:17:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 01:17:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 14 02:17:37 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eaWvV-0004ko-9e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 02:17:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53291 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaWxU-0005Qe-OD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaWwz-0005QX-Ck for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:19:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaWww-0004sB-83 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:39572) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaWww-0004r7-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CCFA15BA for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:19:00 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AED217DF for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:19:00 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1AD472DC6B; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:18:59 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115706 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > > > > `M-n' (`clone-buffer') is your friend. > > > Wow, yet another gift from Info! Thanks again! > > > > Cool! That is also a new feature I did not know about either. I can > > think of several cases where this is going to be very useful to me. > > Thank you for this very interesting hint! > > Yes; it is very useful. No, it is not a new feature. > It's been around at least since Emacs 22. Sorry. I meant feature new to me. I didn't mean new to Emacs. > One moral here is that we have our habitual ways of > using Emacs but there are probably, for each of us, > other ways to use it that we could benefit from > learning. And sometimes that new acquaintance is > just a doc perusal away. Actually that is one of the reasons I have started to post usage questions here. To challenge the way I have been doing things for so long that I don't think about them anymore and to breath some fresh air into them. Bob