From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: narrow with mode? Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 09:38:58 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243085977 28398 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2009 13:39:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 13:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Wiegley To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 23 15:39:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M7rRg-0006XU-EA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 15:39:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40579 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M7rRf-0007Zw-L3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 09:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M7rRL-0007Zh-4j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 09:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M7rRG-0007ZM-Jn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 09:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60391 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M7rRG-0007ZJ-ET for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 09:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52926 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M7rRF-0007yx-UH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 09:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M7rRA-0002F6-2S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 13:38:56 +0000 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 13:38:56 +0000 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 13:38:56 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WG8tZTqeq1t2/vrjdkGnUB/1Sjg= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64657 Archived-At: Hi All, I often find myself wanting to work on a region of a buffer in a different mode from the current one. For example, I'd like to use markdown-mode on the body of a weblogger.el blog entry, and then I'd further like to use c++-mode (or whatever) on code snippets within that entry. So I'd like to first narrow the body of the entry into markdown mode, then narrow again to c++-mode, then pop back out to markdown mode on the whole body, and finally out to weblogger-entry-mode on the whole buffer. This seems like it must be an incredibly common need, but I've never seen anything designed to support it. Closest thing I've seen is http://www.blackie.dk/emacs/narrow-stack.el, but it only handles part of the problem. Anyone got a hint for me? Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com