From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Opening multiple files in a single buffer? Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:26:47 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="102645"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 15 17:27:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jkr17-000QZl-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:27:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36988 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkr16-0008Ty-Jf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkr0g-0008TO-Bb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.20]:56667) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkr0e-0002HW-Dg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 05FFQnYl017557 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO) for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:26:50 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 05FFQn0E014022; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:26:49 GMT In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.20; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/06/15 02:47:27 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123400 Archived-At: > > As I said, I think it should be easy to implement. > I also gave some pointers to get started. > > [...] > > The underlying functionality needed for that has existed in Emacs "for > ever", so no need for a future Emacs. Someone just needs to implement > it and make it available as a package. > Okay, thank you, I'll have a look at this. Your sentence "For files that use different major modes, it'd be more problematic, of course." made me think you were suggesting something that would not do what I have in mind, but I was wrong. Gregory