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### 2.5 `M-n` creates a new independent Info buffer in Emacs

If you are reading Info in Emacs, you can select a new independent Info buffer in a new Emacs window by typing `M-n`. The new buffer starts out as an exact copy of the old one, but you will be able to move independently between nodes in the two buffers. (In Info mode, `M-n` runs the Emacs command `clone-buffer`.)

In Emacs Info, you can also produce new Info buffers by giving a numeric prefix argument to the `m` and `g` commands. `C-u m` and `C-u g` go to a new node in exactly the same way that `m` and `g` do, but they do so in a new Info buffer which they select in another window.

Another way to produce new Info buffers in Emacs is to use a numeric prefix argument for the `C-h i` command (`info`) which switches to the Info buffer with that number. Thus, `C-u 2 C-h i` switches to the buffer ‘`*info*<2>`’, creating it if necessary.