bug#51851: No way to see different Info pages at the same time

bug#51851: No way to see different Info pages at the same time

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

C-h i runs the command info.
That's great, but if we then use
C-x 2 runs the command split-window-below
then at most we can see different parts of the same
Info page. But still, unlike man pages, alas, forget about being able to
see different Info pages at the same time within the same emacs session.

emacs-version "27.1"

bug#51851: No way to see different Info pages at the same time

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> C-h i runs the command info.
> That's great, but if we then use
> C-x 2 runs the command split-window-below
> then at most we can see different parts of the same
> Info page. But still, unlike man pages, alas, forget about being able to
> see different Info pages at the same time within the same emacs session.

Like with any of the Emacs commands that default to a specific name, you
can just rename the buffer and have as many of them as you wish.

Closing.

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bug#51851: [External] : bug#51851: No way to see different Info pages at the same time

[Drew Adams]

> > C-h i runs the command info.
> > That's great, but if we then use
> > C-x 2 runs the command split-window-below
> > then at most we can see different parts of the same
> > Info page. But still, unlike man pages, alas, forget about being able to
> > see different Info pages at the same time within the same emacs session.
> 
> Like with any of the Emacs commands that default to a specific name, you
> can just rename the buffer and have as many of them as you wish.

There's not even the need to go to the trouble
of explicitly renaming the buffer.

Just use `M-n'.  That "clones" the buffer,
automatically giving the new buffer a new name
(e.g. `*info*<2>').

I do that all the time.

If it isn't already (and I'm guessing it is),
this feature should be presented prominently
in the `Info' manual.

And it's already present in the `Info' menu,
as item `Clone Info buffer   M-n'.
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(That menu item has a typo, BTW: it should
have "Buffer", not "buffer".)