Re: Is a method like this already in emacs?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> writes:

> * Matthias Pfeifer <mpfeifer77@gmail.com> in gnu.emacs.help:
>> i recently added this defun to my init.el
>
>> (defun detach-window ()
>>   "Close current window and re-open it in new frame."
>>   (interactive)
>>   (let ((currentBuffer (window-buffer)))
>>     (progn
>>       (delete-window)
>>       (select-frame (make-frame))
>>       (set-window-buffer (selected-window) currentBuffer))))
>
>> and found it to be useful in several situations. now i wonder if
>> a function that does the same is already available somewhere in emacs?
>
> No, but there has been a quite long related discussion recently on

Yes, this is exactly what C-x 5 2  or  M-x make-frame-command  does.

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