{"id":9653,"date":"2021-04-25T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2021-04-25T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:42:08","slug":"multiple-help-buffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9653","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Help Buffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcin Borkowski (mbork) posted a potentially helpful tip on <a href=\"http:\/\/mbork.pl\/2021-04-17_Multiple_Help_buffers\">multiple help buffers<\/a>. I say \u201cpotentially helpful\u201d because his use case is pretty niche and it\u2019s hard to think of others that are essentially different. Regardless, If you need multiple help buffers, mbork shows you how.<\/p>\n<p>His particular need was to compare the doc strings of two functions. If I had that need, I would probably have followed the help buffer to the source of the first function and then brought up the help for the second function. The source of the first function contains the doc string, of course, so I could compare them with a single help buffer. Mbork\u2019s solution is arguably simpler. Take a look at his post to see how he did it.<\/p>\n<p>I often comment on Borkowski\u2019s posts but I don\u2019t mention all of them. If you\u2019re interested in honing your Emacs skills, his blog is a good one to follow. It\u2019s low volume\u2014a post every week or two\u2014so you won\u2019t be overwhelmed. If, like me, you have an RSS feed, you should consider adding his blog to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcin Borkowski (mbork) posted a potentially helpful tip on multiple help buffers. I say \u201cpotentially helpful\u201d because his use case is pretty niche and it\u2019s hard to think of others that are essentially different. Regardless, If you need multiple help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9654,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions\/9654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}