Re: Request for pointers and advice: displaying several buffers inside a single window

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

> I don't think I understand what you mean by "segments of text".
> Buffer text is just a long C array of 'char' in Emacs.

I mean that buffer text in indirect buffer is a pointer to the first
element of the C array containing the text in master buffer (or
something similar). Similarly, the pointer can be created to nth element
of array. Thus, "segment" of text starting from some non-zero position
in the master buffer can be automatically synchronised with the master
buffer. 

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
>> Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel
>>  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 23:35:12 +0800
>> 
>> What about extending the idea of indirect buffers? In indirect buffers,
>> the buffer strings are associated with the same memory address storing
>> the text (if I understand correctly). Similar thing (theoretically) can
>> be done for individual segments of text.
>
> I don't think I understand what you mean by "segments of text".
> Buffer text is just a long C array of 'char' in Emacs.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@alumni.sutd.edu.sg