From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Brett Gilio Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Feature Discuss] Nested buffer Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:11:54 -0500 Message-ID: <878t61ww39.fsf@posteo.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532376649 19501 195.159.176.226 (23 Jul 2018 20:10:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:10:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: fei xiaobo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 23 22:10:45 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fhhAK-0004yr-Pw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:10:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhhCR-0007qf-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38645) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhhBe-0007pD-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhhBa-0003Kd-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:60947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhhBa-0003Fa-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2394121067 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:12:00 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1532376720; bh=ZvqST+GgmfXpiX0UulnfKL0cER5i9BLPDlA+q5phfsE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=UyxuB5E4NNSoe7CP2yrIkAvxd7Whp3odM0d7JK+cbm4pW8o53/woWZ+QBkraSYR0J Xl49Nf1aW5kudIs8NNScUmt/ABFoX7JGiTiWrUS50GxJs+sNsFBlrWl15Z5uMDWzPw HeKrUVEb/q3FgRw2TuUITXrOso6xsXqO1+6zgL12vqkRXS8RaWae3fA41OD5SkFIUh DEiyCNmTHd+qHjuTB6J+a8zCFjcfxMxo+/HwPVESgcSbuOUVWJll9UlhxiT39MM85C S8FQzT8aS9PYf/Z4U2x2MkUz1g/w49lqJwzHN/V92zx2V/EvifwgtrDo3SGgCpJmY/ Ichk7hlxDwAlQ== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 41ZCM31Vn4z6tm8; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:11:58 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.65 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227745 Archived-At: fei xiaobo writes: > Hi all. > > I am building a plan to implement *Nested buffer* in Emacs > recently. Is it > a good ideal? > > Nested buffer what I mean here is the sub-buffers which embedded > in a host > buffer. > > - Nested/Embed buffer's content is linked to an arbitrary > buffer. > - Host buffer's content consists of the content of all the > nested > buffers. > > If having this, we could embed multiple buffers' content into a > host buffer > to get one virtual buffer. And, after updating the nested > buffer's content, > the virtual host buffer's content is updated too. I think it > will be > helpful for many special plugins. > > Appreciated any comments or suggestion. Could you provide a scenario where you would find this feature to be useful? I am not casting it off, but I am having a hard time thinking of what it could be used for that Emacs doesn't already do. -- Brett M. Gilio Free Software Foundation, Member https://parabola.nu | https://emacs.org