Re: Bug in clone-indirect-buffer and clone-indirect-buffer-other-window

[Richard M. Stallman]

I had not noticed that clone-indirect-buffer-other-window asked the
user to specify the name of the buffer to start with.  That seems like
a big inconsistency.  Normally the only difference between foobar and
foobar-other window is where to display the results.

I see that clone-indirect-buffer-other-window is documented wrongly in
the manual, based on the assumption that it does what its name
suggests.

So I think the right thing is to replace its definition with this:



(defun clone-indirect-buffer-other-window (newname display-flag &optional 
norecord)
  "Like `clone-indirect-buffer' but display in another window."
  (interactive
   (progn
     (if (get major-mode 'no-clone-indirect)
         (error "Cannot indirectly clone a buffer in %s mode" mode-name))
     (list (if current-prefix-arg
               (read-string "BName of indirect buffer: "))
           t)))
  (let ((pop-up-windows t))
    (clone-indirect-buffer newname display-flag norecord)))