From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't open the same buffer in a second frame Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 13:25:40 -0500 Message-ID: <57a901a7-726a-c053-169f-f5523e29d418@mousecar.com> References: <9df860de-de40-773c-44ad-3079ba29390b@mousecar.com> <20171205135029.3ff863c6@zothique> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512584781 28184 195.159.176.226 (6 Dec 2017 18:26:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 18:26:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 06 19:26:16 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 1eMeOd-0007AN-LN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 19:26:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56963 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMeOh-0003AF-TN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:26:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMeOG-0003AA-RM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:25:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMeOB-000500-Qa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:25:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.197]:50803) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMeOB-0004xJ-L0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:25:47 -0500 Original-Received: from nv.mousecar.net ([96.27.75.237]) by mrelay.perfora.net (mreueus001 [74.208.5.2]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LcyTW-1en9VC2oC0-00iCIy for ; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 19:25:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20171205135029.3ff863c6@zothique> Content-Language: en-US X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:3U9nilcBJwBVcA6QaaQpkYAWKDLVLBMW6pKQPGNIiQxTA7L7tkC DqeIVsrM4PDDyhmB4sYijx29seYbyGbn1i0g4kFxonbcBbyBb+Ii/sKXioRths/nXkzq1p6 k4DefivTYcP92mTmBnpDiMsjbBVxlKEe5/NKX2tR0RQlrmm2pCury/z4YRdGEpsWg33BQfJ ZHp/vXK1kwFVi91pAfrzw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ZJtpjgwBJLk=:YQVr7dWVQQ/rP1KRBL8glK zJF6SL243JTkZLjvhJJpjlI7Rno1C8YPi4K2piRvyzegVsQKb4KJhRPFCvRiDXSNoIOIEMITP LcCFPZvaGYDOPckbXBN4XdT3m+wDpNFfCxEanCWxaQf2ac/hauYu0st7zwds3SjdY95O16A4D GQvaeJLhh9/iNOfEtYZkESvA+tHowvMQdLc5zmuG1Mi/NMRs6QLzZlV6KZ6SyIB2E+yhEWps6 ODGj5jm6YirGrkO/jaBPHVUv3kOSkhuhM4cWz4CSoLKIeMVHMfm3JopH1PM5nC53iFPp6JMGf ofa4vc38hnaL5GYhazGfLQXxatSCjSaQUOcOPfF4zShPYrpPI0wxaA8KX4tMMrA4C580hoLLy nYdVUfwIlWjkp4VY0gdnTDn+lnAaiGDJy/pR9x/UA6b6Hi/l4DLF1a/1MLRstfnmV5sWixMnU zszrllOuvjwikdTM0mJh9VMRy2MXxMS4riKO50jNqXtbbVTz+7Hy8E3ptl0eQT/7L7gXvXaJK 4rnjWfoEtRDO9mQKyAh92CAFULxUjpitjavUG4+Ln8bhZPPfamhuKLCHx/uQabKvHWatzHRNk WrEuXtuBKJ6kQRHcssgyUM3+617R54+fYl/Tz42w7WMrUFXw9NumlmFzQgv/XtzFDGOLRy1AE 6oki92nR9XcobgkSQ7FyHDqF5iiC6BwhABFyNkv8CZuyyVU/3GOWUaBqWZZ8TykJL1YOxknzw djCIdc4WPkvO5anjYw2dNzQMpdQ8LrgLU+6p0qFffXr4AVztMwTip3FiEMs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 74.208.4.197 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:115268 Archived-At: On 12/05/2017 04:50 PM, Dale Snell wrote: > 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. "C-x 5 2" worked... didn't know about it, and it actually does what I need more directly and efficiently.  Thanks.