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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dim1212k@gmail.com, adam@alphapapa.net, casouri@gmail.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Request for pointers and advice: displaying several buffers inside a single window
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:01:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4dcc0b3-4b75-4bfc-a728-c84be3c2aaed@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pncfxk4m.fsf@localhost>

> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-10 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-03 11:54 Request for pointers and advice: displaying several buffers inside a single window Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-03 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-04 22:44   ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-05 14:08     ` Adam Porter
2020-04-05 22:55   ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-10 14:45     ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-10 15:35       ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-10 16:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 17:46           ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-10 18:07             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 18:37               ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-10 19:01                 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-04-10 19:19                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-10 20:29                     ` Drew Adams
2020-04-11  8:11                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-11 17:23                         ` Drew Adams
2020-04-12  2:42                           ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-12  5:09                             ` Drew Adams
2020-04-12  5:15                               ` Drew Adams
2020-04-13  2:21                               ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-13  5:23                                 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-12 23:54                             ` Juri Linkov
2020-04-13  5:23                               ` Drew Adams
2020-04-12 14:25                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-12 16:38                             ` Drew Adams
2020-04-10 19:12                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 19:25                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-10 19:34                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-11  7:34                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-11  8:35                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-11  9:25                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 19:09         ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-11  0:05           ` chad
2020-04-11  8:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-11  7:30           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-11  7:56             ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-11  8:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-11 10:01                 ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-03 18:30 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2020-04-05 13:18   ` Robert Pluim
2020-04-05 20:35     ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov

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