The clone-indirect-buffer function is from Emacs and Org-mode created a specialized function, org-tree-to-indirect-buffer, that just makes creating an indirect buffer narrowed to a subtree easier.
Indirect buffers may be useful for much more then just visibility cycling. You can use a different major mode in each buffer, narrow to different regions, etc.. If you are, for instance, inserting an org-mode table in a latex document (see [1]) you might want to clone the buffer, change one of them to org-mode and narrow to the table. Then you can edit the table normally and alternate with editing the latex document as you want. [1] - http://orgmode.org/manual/A-LaTeX-example.html -- Darlan At Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:55:19 +0800, Joseph Buchignani <joseph.buchign...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>] > Awesome, thanks. > > This makes Org-Mode truly a two pane outliner. Actually it's three "pane" I > guess, since it includes metadata. Yeah... 3 pane, the agenda view would be > a pane. > > I would suggest adding this command to the documentation for Org-Mode under > the outlining section somewhere. I've been using Emacs for years as a > non-techie and never came across it. For writers it's only really useful for > visibility cycling of outlines, so they're not likely to come across it > elsewhere. > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, suvayu ali > <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > > > Sure you can - check out "Indirect buffers" in the Emacs manual. > > > > > > > > > > C-c C-x b > > > > -- > > Suvayu > > > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > > > > > > -- > Ignore the following. It is a nonsense sentence that disables Google ads > from displaying next to my emails by triggering sensitive keywords. > > I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a > messy bloodbath. > [2 <text/html; ISO-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>] >
