RE: Request for pointers and advice: displaying several buffers inside a single window

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

> FWIW, this is what library zones.el offers.  The zones ("segments") in a given set of zones can be for the same buffer or different buffers.

Thanks for the reference. I tried zones once, but abandoned exactly
because I was looking for showing all zones at once (not cycling through
them). 

> But if your question/request is about displaying text from different buffers in the same Emacs window then zones.el won't help you.

Yep. Displaying and editing (with synchronised changes in those
buffers).


Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I would rather say that "segment" is a text between two markers in an
>> arbitrary buffer. Just like narrowing.
>> 
>> > If so, how is this different from narrowing in indirect buffers that
>> > we have now?
>> 
>> The difference is that text in a single buffer must not always be
>> coming from a single buffer (possibly narrowed), but can as well be a list of
>> "segments". Instead of storing all the buffer text in a single char
>> array, the buffer text could be represented by a list of "segments". In
>> a normal buffer, this list will just contain a single element pointing
>> to the buffer's char array containing its text. However, the list can
>> be extended with "segments" from other buffers.
>
> FWIW, this is what library zones.el offers.  The zones ("segments") in a given set of zones can be for the same buffer or different buffers.
>
> But if your question/request is about displaying text from different buffers in the same Emacs window then zones.el won't help you.
>
> See also library narrow-indirect.el.
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/zones.el
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/narrow-indirect.el

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@alumni.sutd.edu.sg