Re: info.el patch to open node in new window [was: generate 3) S-mouse-2: follow link in new window]

[Juri Linkov]

> I was wrong. I had forgotten that I had (trivially) redefined
> `Info-mouse-follow-nearest-node' to accept the optional FORK arg and pass it
> to `Info-try-follow-nearest-node'. The reason my code was no longer working
> was that I had made another, conflicting mouse binding elsewhere - my bad.
>
> It works fine now. Attached are patches for info.el and etc/NEWS to add
> these two commands:
>
> * Info-follow-nearest-node-other-window
> * Info-mouse-follow-nearest-node-other-window

I think we should remove the FORK argument, clone Info buffer in
`Info-follow-nearest-node-new-window' and call `Info-follow-nearest-node'
without arguments.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/