Hi Stefan.
I discovered it when trying to edit an MSBuild file (that's a MSVS project). It is normally an XML, but you can use some C# inside to write inline tasks, so I wanted to have a buffer that highlights C# code on one side and XML on the other side.
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> When I clone buffer using clone-indirect-buffer (C-x 4 c), and then change
> major mode, the newly created buffer will enter the requested major mode,
> but will cause the original buffer to be refontified in the same way the
> clone buffer is. Thereafter whenever I change major mode, the same thing
> happens.
Yup. Indirect buffers suck. What do you use clone-indirect-buffer for?
Stefan