Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs

[phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)]

That is kind of useful -- basically you are including a second file into
the current editing context so you can edit in-place as it were.

I've been working on a tool called "linked-buffer" which allows me to
edit two files (with somewhat different contents) at the same time. The
same technique might work here -- you would need to put the text of
interest into the buffer, then ensure any changes to that would
percolate backward to the main file.

Phil

arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> Here is a picture of how it looks like: 
>
> http://dev.brackets.io/preso/intro/assets/features/brackets-quick-edit-js.PNG
>
> I don't know if they have trademark for "quick edit" :-), but since they
> actually develop Brackets as open source, I hope they keep their terms open
> source as well. I also hope they didn't patented :).
>
> As Stephan wrote, it could be seen as analogy to a link, but instead of
> visiting a link the text is pulled into the current buffer under the cursor. I
> used "intellisense" analogy because I was thinking of context awareness
> indeed, not of the looks. But link analaogy is indeed better.
>
> I think difference of editing in new window, versus pulling piece of buffer into same window, makeing seemles illusion of editing same file, is workflow 
> enhacement. If I may take freedom to allude on another such workflow
> enhacement, I would compare it to difference between Vi and Emacs, and "direct
> text" editing as in Emacs compared to "command mode" editing as in Vi. I think
> it is such kind of a difference.