From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a save-outline-visibility excursion or so?
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:41:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li77jfo0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87txlvyyrn.fsf@gmail.com
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You may find it easier to work with `make-indirect-buffer' and
> `clone-indirect-buffer' (See Elisp manual).
>
> (I think) In the first case, the indirect buffer starts with no
> overlays. In the second case, the indirect buffer starts with same
> *overlay values* as the first one.
>
> You can see that any visibility operation on the indirect buffer doesn't
> affect the visibility of the original buffer.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for the tip, indirect buffers are exactly what I needed for
editing partly folded outshine buffers without changing visibility or
point-position. I reimplemented the relevant outshine function and now
it works as expected.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-22 9:13 Is there a save-outline-visibility excursion or so? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-22 9:18 ` Jambunathan K
2013-05-22 10:12 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-22 10:25 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-22 12:39 ` Jambunathan K
2013-05-22 13:41 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2013-05-23 1:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-23 10:43 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-23 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-24 14:06 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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