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In GNU Emacs 18.55.6 of Mon Jun 25 1990 on icule (usg-unix-v)

I would like to be able to look at the same Babyl file in two windows,
using Rmail mode, each window positionned on a different message.  For
now, the point may be different as long as both windows are looking to
the same message; changing of message in one window changes it in all
other windows.

For now, I usually take a copy of the message on the kill ring, open a
temporary buffer in a second window, yank the message in, position the
Babyl file to the other message, and then compare.  I have the feeling
GNU Emacs could help me better in this.

I do understand that narrowing is used to select a particular message
from a Babyl file, and that narrowing a file is not local to a buffer.
I would like to see this problem solved, instead of merely explained.
Maybe narrowing could be redesigned to take effect only locally in a
buffer, maybe narrowing should not be used for Babyl files, maybe
there are other solutions, I do not know.

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