From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Feature Discuss] Nested buffer Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 22:28:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878t61ww39.fsf@posteo.net> <79a90a0a-4ed4-9b41-25fb-744cb72fc9b8@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532485619 12549 195.159.176.226 (25 Jul 2018 02:26:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 02:26:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 25 04:26:55 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 1fi9Vu-0003AZ-VH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:26:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fi9Y1-0008Qe-Ri for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 22:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39574) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fi9XA-0008QQ-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 22:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fi9X7-0001Lb-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 22:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54553 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fi9X7-0001L7-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 22:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fi9Ux-0002Bf-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:25:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:laqSsq5ouw+k/S9dFVIz3BYtwKw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:227788 Archived-At: > I think anything that was covered by the islands proposals a few months ago > would be a good candidate, including mixed-mode buffers (HTML+JS+CSS) and > documents that embed code snippets (e.g. org-mode buffers) But having those chunks represented as nested buffers only solves the problem of "which buffer-local variables to use when", which is basically the easy problem (and it does it in a pretty hard way). It doesn't solve the issue of interaction between chunks at the boundary (which is the part that mostly requires coordination via some standardized protocol). Stefan