From: arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: "rms@gnu.org" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:41:09 +0100 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <E1WQL3u-0004KL-Fm@fencepost.gnu.org>
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Yepp, you are definitely right.
They just overlay a window over the buffer.
To answer the questions:
* arrow keys move normally through the file as if the overlay window was not there
* arrow keys don't move into the file, nor do they move outside the file once the window get the focus
* arrow keys behave just as normally as they do in a files, the context is switched by pressing with a mouse
cursor inside the new buffer (I don't know if there is a command/shortcut to do it without mouse, I don't use
brackets - I am just curious about it).
* search is working as if they are separate files; it searches in the buffer with focus
* text selection is also behaving as if they are separate buffers: it continues through buffer below the overlay or not going
outside of overlay buffer. - also it is not possible to select text across files
Here are some screenshots I took with selection, search and also to show how they display code with same name but in different
files:
http://nextpoint.se/bc/b1.png
http://nextpoint.se/bc/b2.png
http://nextpoint.se/bc/b3.png
http://nextpoint.se/bc/b4.png
http://nextpoint.se/bc/b5.png
Of course, just because Brackets does it one way or another, does not mean Emacs has to do same way.
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:17:58 -0400
> From: rms@gnu.org
> To: arthur.miller@live.com
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs
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> Here is a picture of how it looks like:
>
> http://dev.brackets.io/preso/intro/assets/features/brackets-quick-edit-js.PNG
>
> It appears that this displays a portion of another file in the middle
> of the file you are editing. Right?
>
> How do editing commands behave in that situation?
> Does that editor have keyboard editing commands?
> For instance, do arrow keys normally move through the file?
> If so, what do the arrow keys do in that mode?
> Do they move into, through, and out of the portion of the other file?
> If you search in that mode, does it search through the text that is visible?
>
> What happens if you try to select a region with one end
> inside one file and the other end in another file?
> Can you do that? If so, what happens if you delete that region?
>
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2014-03-18 13:29 "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs arthur miller
2014-03-18 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-18 19:24 ` arthur miller
2014-03-19 4:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-19 14:01 ` Ivan Andrus
2014-03-19 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-03-19 15:16 ` arthur miller
2014-03-19 15:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-03-19 15:31 ` Ivan Andrus
2014-03-19 15:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-03-19 16:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-19 16:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-03-19 16:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-03-19 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-18 19:37 ` arthur miller
2014-03-18 21:29 ` Alan Schmitt
[not found] ` <DUB111-W4468B0D4051AE6F0B217B2967C0@phx.gbl>
2014-03-18 21:42 ` arthur miller
2014-03-19 16:01 ` Tom
2014-03-19 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-20 11:04 ` Phillip Lord
2014-03-20 11:58 ` arthur miller
2014-03-20 18:57 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-21 11:36 ` Phillip Lord
2014-03-21 16:58 ` chad
2014-03-21 18:58 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-20 12:50 ` Stefan
2014-03-20 14:40 ` Phillip Lord
2014-03-20 13:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-03-20 16:00 ` Phillip Lord
2014-03-18 20:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-03-19 4:00 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-19 4:09 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-03-19 8:06 ` Tom
2014-03-19 9:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-19 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-19 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-19 9:01 ` arthur miller
2014-03-19 10:18 ` Phillip Lord
2014-03-19 18:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-19 20:41 ` arthur miller [this message]
2014-03-19 22:26 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-19 12:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-03-19 12:53 ` arthur miller
2014-03-19 14:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-19 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-19 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-20 6:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-03-20 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 16:42 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-20 16:43 ` arthur miller
2014-03-20 16:59 ` David Engster
2014-03-20 17:25 ` arthur miller
2014-03-20 17:41 ` David Engster
2014-03-20 17:52 ` arthur miller
2014-03-20 20:05 ` Johan Bockgård
2014-03-20 20:08 ` David Engster
2014-03-20 20:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-03-20 17:04 ` Matthew Leach
2014-03-19 16:20 ` Josh
2014-03-26 21:21 ` Mathias Dahl
2014-03-26 21:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-03-28 4:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-03-28 15:26 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-28 16:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2014-03-30 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-30 1:01 ` Lennart Borgman
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