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Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:24:10 +0200
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> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:17:05 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>    Even in its ``advanced'' sections, this manual assumes a user who
>    is not really ``advanced'' by the Emacs standards.
> 
> The material on manually editing .info files looks pretty advanced to me.

Why?  Every Unix and GNU user knows about .bashrc, .emacs etc. files.
It's basic Unix usage, IMHO.

>    We should also have an xref to the section in the Emacs manual that
>    describes cloned buffers, I think.
> 
> There is no such section.

I went to the Emacs manual, typed "i clone RET", and was presented
with the node "Indirect Buffers" that describes that.