From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dale Snell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't open the same buffer in a second frame Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:50:29 -0800 Organization: Organization? Me? ROFL!! Message-ID: <20171205135029.3ff863c6@zothique> References: <9df860de-de40-773c-44ad-3079ba29390b@mousecar.com> Reply-To: ddsnell@frontier.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512577177 22809 195.159.176.226 (6 Dec 2017 16:19:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 16:19:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 06 17:19:33 2017 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 1eMcPO-0001Nn-Rd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 17:18:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMLSQ-0008N6-04 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:12:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37436) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eML78-0001ij-Cn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:50:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eML73-0003kV-I2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:50:54 -0500 Original-Received: from filter01.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net ([199.224.80.228]:39203) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eML73-0003jn-DX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:50:49 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filter01.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E12175872; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from relay01.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net ([199.224.80.244]) by localhost (filter01.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net [199.224.80.228]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id CaYCfc9U4lF5; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:50:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Originating-IP: [50.109.244.145] X-Previous-IP: 50.109.244.145 Original-Received: from zothique (unknown [50.109.244.145]) by relay01.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id BC21739963; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:50:28 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <9df860de-de40-773c-44ad-3079ba29390b@mousecar.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 199.224.80.228 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:12:17 -0500 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:115258 Archived-At: On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:30:31 -0500, in message 9df860de-de40-773c-44ad-3079ba29390b@mousecar.com, ken wrote: > 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? I tried this here, and both "C-x 5 b" and "C-x 5 f" worked just fine, though they both wanted me to specify the filename. "C-x 5 2" opened a new frame and automatically displayed the buffer from the previous frame. I suspect that there is something in your ~/.emacs.el configuration that is causing this. Best thing to do is do a binary search of your configuration. I.e., comment out half of the config and save it. Run emacs and see if the problem has gone away. If not, comment out half of the remaining config and try again. If it has gone away, un-comment the section you just commented and try again. Rinse and repeat until you've found the errant config. Hope this helps. --Dale --=20 =E2=80=9CAlways do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.= =E2=80=9D -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)=20