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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Keybinding that loops through Major Modes
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:52:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7q6cx1k.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9emo9rq.fsf@web.de>


On Tue, Nov 03 2020, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>> > A method that would be a bit cleaner in my eyes would be a command that
>> > lets you edit a specified region in a temp buffer in the correct mode.
>>
>> A narrowed, indirect buffer. (Basically the same idea, with a few things
>> automated.)
>
> AFAIK the problem with indirect buffers is that AFAIK font-lock isn't
> supported (unless you use the same mode and settings as the base
> buffer).

If that's the case then yes, that's a problem. The manual says an indirect
buffer can have its own major mode, and I assumed from that font lock wouldn't
be a problem.

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-03 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-02 20:32 Keybinding that loops through Major Modes Christopher Dimech
2020-11-02 20:59 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-02 21:10   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-02 21:31     ` Vegard Vesterheim
2020-11-02 22:11       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-03  8:11     ` tomas
2020-11-03  8:49       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-03  9:44         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-03 11:27           ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-03 12:19             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-03 12:29               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-03 12:50                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-03 14:19                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-03 13:09               ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-03 13:22                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-03 14:35                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-03 14:52                   ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2020-11-03 16:17                   ` Drew Adams
2020-11-02 22:54   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-02 23:27     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-02 23:29       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-02 21:02 ` Stefan Monnier

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