Function: clone-indirect-buffer-other-window

clone-indirect-buffer-other-window is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in simple.el.gz.

Signature

(clone-indirect-buffer-other-window NEWNAME DISPLAY-FLAG &optional NORECORD)

Documentation

Like clone-indirect-buffer but display in another window.

If this command needs to split the current window, it by default obeys the user options split-height-threshold and split-width-threshold, when it decides whether to split the window horizontally or vertically.

View in manual

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 21.1.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/simple.el.gz
(defun clone-indirect-buffer-other-window (newname display-flag &optional norecord)
  "Like `clone-indirect-buffer' but display in another window.
If this command needs to split the current window, it by default obeys
the user options `split-height-threshold' and `split-width-threshold',
when it decides whether to split the window horizontally or vertically."
  (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)))
  ;; For compatibility, don't display the buffer if display-flag is nil.
  (let ((buffer (clone-indirect-buffer newname nil norecord)))
    (when display-flag
      (switch-to-buffer-other-window buffer norecord))))