From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: virtual file buffer spanning multiple physical files Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:46:32 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bp7diz5z.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285955217 13467 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 17:46:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:46:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 19:46:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1jh5-00089n-NV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:46:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1jh5-0002re-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42408 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1jgz-0002rX-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1jgy-0003bC-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48436) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1jgx-0003ag-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:46:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1jgu-00086J-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:46:40 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:46:40 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:46:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F+CXlg9Qtq+2RMPL4Vmry/yWE44= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131171 Archived-At: On a LUG mailing list I saw a request for a way to edit multiple physical files through one virtual file. The solution recommended was to use FUSE. I was thinking that would actually (with some folding magic) be extremely useful in Emacs. There are many cases where I edit multiple small files and have to switch back and forth to see their contents. Also, search-and-replace would be easier. Is there any existing mode that does that kind of virtual join? Ted