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bug#35466: 26.2; Feature request: add clone-indirect-buffer-other-frame
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Juri Linkov |
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bug#35466: 26.2; Feature request: add clone-indirect-buffer-other-frame to C-x 5 c |
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Wed, 29 May 2019 00:41:23 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Not so much a bug, as a feature request. But upon reading that the very
> useful C-x 4 c is bound to `clone-indirect-buffer-other-window`[1] on
> reddit [2], and that the C-x 5 prefix is usually linked to frame related
> commands, I was hoping to see that C-x 5 c would create an indirect
> buffer copy in a new frame (since I rely on frames-only-mode and my
> winowmanager sway for moving between frames). I was sad to see this
> didn't exist yet, but glad that by looking at the source code I could
> whip a working function up very quickly:
>
> (defun clone-indirect-buffer-other-frame (newname display-flag &optional
> norecord)
> "Like `clone-indirect-buffer' but display in another frame."
> (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-buffer "Name of indirect buffer: " (current-buffer)))
> t)))
> (let ((pop-up-frames t))
> (clone-indirect-buffer newname display-flag norecord)))
>
> I think adding this to emacs, bound to C-x 5 c, would create a
> more consistent interface. I hope you agree!
The only problem with this binding is that bug#34715 proposed
to use the same binding C-x 5 c for clone-frame.
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