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: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:32:30 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200403140232.i2E2WUT01565@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200403121634.i2CGYrZ04201@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079241712 15675 80.91.224.253 (14 Mar 2004 05:21:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 05:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 14 06:21:39 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 1B2O4A-0003xA-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:21:38 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2O4A-0004sE-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:21:38 +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 1B2NuX-0003R8-Bb for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2MMx-0003ja-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:32:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2LS3-00017S-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2LS3-00015K-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:34:07 -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 i2E2XuKt020508; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:33:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i2E2WUT01565; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:32:30 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: karl@freefriends.org In-reply-to: <200403121634.i2CGYrZ04201@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org) 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:20438 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20438 What about the following patch to info.texi, documenting M-n, C-u m and C-u g? I could install in the Emacs CVS version of info.texi, if desired. ===File ~/info.texi-diff==================================== *** info.texi.~1.39.~ Mon Mar 8 18:17:14 2004 --- info.texi Sat Mar 13 20:22:30 2004 *************** *** 1004,1009 **** --- 1004,1030 ---- edit the Info file, so typing @kbd{e} there goes to the end of the current node. + @unnumberedsubsec @kbd{M-n} creates a cloned Info buffer in Emacs + + @kindex M-n @r{(Info mode)} + @findex clone-buffer + @cindex cloning an Info buffer in Emacs + If you are reading Info in Emacs, you can select a new independent + Info buffer in another window by typing @kbd{M-n}. The new buffer is + a ``cloned'' version of the old one. (In Info mode, @kbd{M-n} runs + the Emacs command @code{clone-buffer}.) The new buffer starts out + visiting the same node as the old one and initially has the same node + history list (@pxref{Help-Int, Intermediate Info commands}), but you + will be able to move independently between nodes in the two buffers. + + @kindex C-u g @r{(Info mode)} + @kindex C-u m @r{(Info mode)} + In Emacs Info, you can also produce cloned Info buffers by giving a + numeric prefix argument to the @kbd{m} and @kbd{g} commands. @kbd{C-u m} + and @kbd{C-u g} go to a new node in exactly the same way that @kbd{m} + and @kbd{g} do, but they do so in a new cloned Info buffer which they + select in another window. + @node Info Search, Add, Advanced, Expert Info @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section How to search Info documents for specific subjects ============================================================