On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:30:31 -0500, in message
9df860de-de40-773c-44ad-3079ba29390b@mousecar.com, ken wrote:
It used to be nice that I could open the same buffer in a second
frame (aka window). Sometimes I need to edit the same file in three
or four places and it's necessary to have all of them showing at the
same time... and for other reasons. But I tried doing "C-x 5 b" and
also "C-x 5 f" yesterday and couldn't do it either way. I could open
a different (not currently open file or buffer), but couldn't open
the same one. It worked years ago. Why take away perfectly good and
useful functionality? More importantly, how do I get it back?
I tried this here, and both "C-x 5 b" and "C-x 5 f" worked just
fine, though they both wanted me to specify the filename. "C-x 5 2"
opened a new frame and automatically displayed the buffer from
the previous frame.