From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:24:54 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200403120124.i2C1OsS22697@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079096667 22200 80.91.224.253 (12 Mar 2004 13:04:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 12 14:04:16 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B1mKm-0007YC-00 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:04:16 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B1mKl-0002Mc-00 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:04:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1gAA-0005yy-KB for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 01:28:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B1g81-0005XC-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 01:26:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B1g7K-0005MP-Qn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 01:26:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1bRS-0000K1-9O; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2C1QGKt001474; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:26:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i2C1OsS22697; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:24:54 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: dak@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 09 Mar 2004 16:40:46 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20349 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20349 David Kastrup wrote: Actually, it might be even more useful if the "d" command for going to a new directory would also have this FORK functionality, since _that_ is the point where one usually wants to start a new info path. And while we are at it, "t" could also make use of a FORK prefix. There was a patch by Juri Linkov discussed in December that added FORK arguments to several Info functions, as well as added several other features to Info. See the thread "Info enhancements" from back in December. I believe only one of the several features (_not_ the FORK stuff) was "controversial", but no part of the patch seems to ever have been committed. Alan Mackenzie wrote: Maybe having two or more *info* buffers at a time is need peculiar to me, but I would've thought it a fairly common requirement. It happens all the time to me and yes, it would be better if it were made more convenient. Sincerely, Luc.