Subject: bug#57753: 27.1; Error in Indirect buffers commands in the manual

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:12:34 +0200

Alexandros Prekates <[email-masked]> writes:

> The manual as it is now
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Indirect-Buffers.html
> it creates wrong  expectations
> regarding M-x clone-indirect-buffer RET
> and 'C-x 4 c'
> Not that we have two commands doing the same due to default values to
> DISPLAY-FLAG but that one will create a cloned buffer in the same window
> and the other in another window.

I've now fixed the manual in Emacs 29 here -- there's no point in
mentioning both commands.  The only difference is if you have
`pop-up-windows' set to nil (the default is t) -- so by default, the
commands are identical.