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From: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
To: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Opening multiple files in a single buffer?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:31:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <95FD02BB-76BB-4DB2-9658-62D8FCAFCE8F@easesoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2006151726290.25205@sdf.lonestar.org>



> On Jun 15, 2020, at 10:26 AM, Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> As I said, I think it should be easy to implement.
>> I also gave some pointers to get started.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> The underlying functionality needed for that has existed in Emacs "for ever", so no need for a future Emacs.  Someone just needs to implement it and make it available as a package.
>> 
> 
> Okay, thank you, I'll have a look at this.  Your sentence "For files that use different major modes, it'd be more problematic, of course." made me think you were suggesting something that would not do what I have in mind, but I was wrong.

The major modes per file is “problematic” but it has been “done” kinda sorta.  You can look at mmm-mode <https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MmmMode>.  I’ve toyed with it a little and decided to go another path.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-15 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-13 14:31 Opening multiple files in a single buffer? Gregory Heytings
2020-06-13 15:20 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-06-13 16:53   ` Gregory Heytings
2020-06-13 15:21 ` tomas
2020-06-13 15:36   ` Douglas Lewan
2020-06-13 15:53     ` tomas
2020-06-13 15:49 ` Jakub Jankiewicz
2020-06-13 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-14 11:11   ` Michael Albinus
2020-06-15  8:26   ` Gregory Heytings
2020-06-15  9:33     ` tomas
2020-06-15  9:52       ` Gregory Heytings
2020-06-15 10:58         ` tomas
2020-06-15 12:48     ` Joost Kremers
2020-06-15 14:24       ` Gregory Heytings
2020-06-15 14:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-15 12:21   ` Sergey Organov
2020-06-15 15:26   ` Gregory Heytings
2020-06-15 15:31     ` Perry Smith [this message]
2020-06-13 18:10 ` Dan Hitt
2020-06-13 18:41   ` Jakub Jankiewicz
2020-06-13 18:41   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-13 19:22     ` Gregory Heytings
2020-06-13 19:45       ` Perry Smith
2020-06-13 20:42         ` Gregory Heytings
2020-06-14  5:29           ` Arthur Miller
2020-06-14  7:12             ` Gregory Heytings
2020-06-14  7:45               ` Arthur Miller
2020-06-14 20:14                 ` Gregory Heytings
2020-06-15  6:58                   ` Sv: " arthur miller
2020-06-13 19:31   ` Stefan Monnier

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