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Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:24:09 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> it is annoyingly impossible to keep working with two views of the same
> buffer. For example, say that I have a file text.tex open in two frames
> since I want to work on two different locations of it via
> comparison/cut&paste/whatever.
> Now I type M-x gnus RET, read news and quit again. As a consequence, a
> totally unrelated buffer pops up. And of course, when I get back the
> buffer again (which is not the default offered), the window point is
> lost and replaced by that of the other frame that is still on.
Yes, it's problematic. Emacs's buffer/window management presumes you
most likely want to display a buffer in only 1 window at a time.
As someone else mentioned you can kind of work around this via
clone-indirect-buffer.
> That is quite a nuisance. Are there some ways to make a two-view setup
> less ephemeral?
You might want to try and play with window-configs.
Stefan
- Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, David Kastrup, 2008/07/11
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, David Hansen, 2008/07/11
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, David Kastrup, 2008/07/12
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, martin rudalics, 2008/07/12
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, David Kastrup, 2008/07/12
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, martin rudalics, 2008/07/12
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/07/12
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, David Kastrup, 2008/07/12
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/07/12
- Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/12
Re: Working with one buffer in two frames/windows, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/07/13