From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: clone buffer that is visiting a file Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:45:09 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220579149 7779 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2008 01:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 01:45:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 05 03:46:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KbQPM-00005e-3b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:46:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQOM-0003HL-N6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQO5-0003Gn-2C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQO4-0003GN-Kl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44063 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQO4-0003GK-DO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46358 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KbQO4-0002kQ-0H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQNv-0007Rb-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:45:15 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:45:15 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:45:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57290 Archived-At: xraysmalevich@gmail.com wrote: > If you try to run clone-buffer on a file-visiting buffer, it won't > happen, and you get the error message "Cannot clone a file-visiting > buffer." > > I think I understand why -- if you clone a file-visiting buffer, both > buffers are visiting the same file -- and this is more a situation for > an indirect buffer. Is this correct? > > But what about situations where you want the entire text of the file- > visiting buffer, the same major mode, but not have it be visiting a > file? Is there any easier way to do this other than copying the entire > buffer and starting from scratch? Why don't you want the new buffer to be visiting a (different/temporary) file? Depending on that, this might suit you: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2007-11/msg00678.html -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA