From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: virtual file buffer spanning multiple physical files Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:56:39 +0100 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87wrq02u0o.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87bp7diz5z.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286053358 5557 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2010 21:02:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:02:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 23:02:37 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 1P29E3-0005YZ-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:02:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47112 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P29E2-0001KV-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53428 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P29Dw-0001KJ-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P29Dv-0004bR-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:02:28 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:53492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P29Du-0004aB-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594366E804F; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 14:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F85451C1F9; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 14:02:22 -0700 (PDT) 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 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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:131259 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. FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is useful for writing virtual filesystems, but it's not a system for virtual files :) You can use FUSE to write a filesystem that allows to edit multiple physical files through one virtual file. > 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? We considered such a mode some time ago in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/120943 Maybe this multi-file mode (a buffer with multiple files) could be implemented like a multi-mode mode (a buffer with multiple major modes).