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From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: can't open the same buffer in a second frame
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:30:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9df860de-de40-773c-44ad-3079ba29390b@mousecar.com> (raw)

It used to be nice that I could open the same buffer in a second frame 
(aka window).  Sometimes I need to edit the same file in three or four 
places and it's necessary to have all of them showing at the same 
time... and for other reasons.  But I tried doing "C-x 5 b" and also 
"C-x 5 f" yesterday and couldn't do it either way.  I could open a 
different (not currently open file or buffer), but couldn't open the 
same one.  It worked years ago. Why take away perfectly good and useful 
functionality?  More importantly, how do I get it back?





             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-05 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-05 21:30 ken [this message]
2017-12-05 21:50 ` can't open the same buffer in a second frame Dale Snell
2017-12-05 23:00   ` tomas
2017-12-06 18:25   ` ken
     [not found] <mailman.5191.1512509446.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-12-06  3:34 ` Emanuel Berg

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