From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:45:03 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079065774 24171 80.91.224.253 (12 Mar 2004 04:29:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 12 05:29:27 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 1B1eIZ-0007nT-00 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:29:27 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B1eIZ-0002yf-00 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:29:27 +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 1B1asC-0001zk-BO for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:50:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B18l7-0002ti-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:48:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B18kL-0002Z4-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B18kF-0002WF-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:47:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B18hT-0004Mx-7o; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:45:03 -0500 Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-reply-to: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:05:32 +0000 (GMT)) 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:20333 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20333 >The recommended method is to create one, do M-x rename-uniquely, then >switch to some other buffer and do M-x info again. This works for all >sorts of special facilities. Ah, right! :-) That's anything but user-friendly, though. It's also difficult to work out from the documentation. I couldn't find any hint of this procedure in the Info info pages, which is the first place I looked, a year or three ago. It is documented, but perhaps there should be more references to it in other parts of the manual. It is almost as easy as clone-buffer.