Re: Buffers with buffers (transclusion)

[James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>]

Vladimir Kazanov wrote:

> Eli, James,
>
>> Yes, that's exactly the kind of thoughts I had when reading the
>> description.  Why do we need to display text from different sources in
>> the same buffer, when we already have side-by-side display in adjacent
>> windows?  If the problem is the decoration which set windows apart, it
>> is a minor issue to begin with, and we can make the separating
>> decorations less prominent.
>
> True, having a bunch of stacked windows, or  side by side windows,
> works to an extent, and this is how I do it now. There are downsides
> to this approach.
>
> Firstly, all of the editing always happens in one of the windows, not
> across windows: search/replace, occur, grep. Having things in one
> buffer makes these things as easy as editing a single small file.

There are things like multi-isearch/occur already, no?

> Also, the number of windows that can be comfortably used in this
> manner is limited. 2? 3? 4?  Doing this within a single window is just
> simpler.

Isn't 2 or 3 enough? AFAIU, one at the bottom to phase-in the succeeding
buffer, and the obverse of that. Of course, depending on buffer content.

Regards,
James