From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: virtual file buffer spanning multiple physical files Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:15:28 -0400 Message-ID: <87bp7dkce7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87bp7diz5z.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285956983 24268 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 18:16:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:16:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 20:16:21 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 1P1k9c-0000EU-Ot for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:16:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1k9c-0004l8-1G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34556 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1k9T-0004k9-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:16:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1k9S-00021i-04 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:16:11 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.121]:46310) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1k9R-00021d-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014154.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.154]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o91IFcKT008849 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:16:03 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 36601C018; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:15:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87bp7diz5z.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:46:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:131177 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > 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? For searching, there's multi-isearch-search.