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: can't open the same buffer in a second frame Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:30:31 -0500 Message-ID: <9df860de-de40-773c-44ad-3079ba29390b@mousecar.com> 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 1512577174 22541 195.159.176.226 (6 Dec 2017 16:19:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 16:19:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 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 17:19:29 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 1eMcPT-0001Nn-SM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 17:18:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMKo3-0003b9-Fl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:31:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMKnb-0003b2-8N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:30:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMKnY-0006kd-5h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:30:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.197]:55211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMKnX-0006k3-V1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:30:40 -0500 Original-Received: from nv.mousecar.net ([96.27.75.237]) by mrelay.perfora.net (mreueus001 [74.208.5.2]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LbbhN-1eoGcI3rvX-00lDSK for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 22:30:38 +0100 Content-Language: en-US X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:HHjhTLdYH8/86dS0yzacvo8wUN60gWo6ehYvgnNwokv2ZNFz4oD qwaEr+JB0kClPhrVS9N4cj0Ky0iJCqCPsynF7z0rBC/iSn7xJ6fCP4/bfB9wu5zkdZVL26O a3cciA0wNHMf11Ds8HTwE5wIYtUgmBRV0CGSosiQWZ91OscHruKXisM82BVLmERc8nSNtIn nzvlSlIzgv1u6UOnXeLiA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:fxtE6Lyu7GQ=:bSpdFynrjUCOd/mexus7qe R5EU6r7defv8Eu45bQz3KRfzBFtnqgYKnxtAHIBE/Dxu8QeuD3oMxKIcTudqSPH64IfmNXuV2 rgmyHwm5KYKt7PZ6cysmLsphjdYIftn0DCVaaaT1RmJE0fFBeiu85W6mTX9PmGRw7FiDf9PFk ST1jNMr0uZ0Bxkj8hE2HbiN9CvZihD1kCdPp8qgBvP69MqhJq5VDDGM7YE9ucf48VYTimonc4 yCJf+6XPUHBycn6Gz64cmNi5TG8mgKbXlL57ZjuNodaXLWrqj/Y8pqHMjQ0cFj+u778g74iQf qXdwa9Oqdg6xIQZGfDusoPuSLEVHcfAKnTrLFpk6P46W43HnnRaHeyFqjIMtagljLGCAO0Qn4 ldvMGSp8xyx4JvFC8dplRsL2If//2BvJNUpmEaJoS96qLd8cq8MJOcqoF++oWbWxSREthq8Et nS8Tp6vOYCXYfjN5IE5PXLXr0Z8Rbfa548w+lhksaLTaVTLXNg6DsusnY1/QiDRNCoPiFiLqN K+KT6Bw7JBeZQQ5ZMfzZEIXTWGDGvCtYfVgrao8gT72qVvgI3Z+yZ6DmnR9WM/gXrlWEZnfAM Tc26Y+1XnBxwwtrqcEEVx0Dlz3mnGpKyPCMTvXx8skRPG25+1/mRyVQE8k3fAraw2gPmMlhn9 pZ8IQPzXG4iO+SJTCffkKeJWj6bpEAKeVDX7p8v1V02dBec8rKW3o18T/lb/sy/VGorRZGEIP DmEgu3cC+eJ2+P45q1dp5gbkRD0aIUOs/ZOmbQ3MRC9Co6gC4gS9gYuYjZw= 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:115257 Archived-At: 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?