Re: indirect-buffers and text-properties

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Having a buffer automatically do this when a new window is displayed
> might be difficult; I think it would need an awful lot of DWIM
> semantics, and I am not sure what these would be.

Stashing point when undisplaying a buffer can be done automatically
without harming anyone.  The DWIM semantics would only show up if/when
the user wants to use one of those stashed points.

> Indeed. I shall look at these solutions before I go further; but
> fiddling with major modes to make them work together is also
> a costly exercise.

I know, but that's what needs to happen: someone should take the
experience of mmm-mode, mumamo, and friends and come up with some set of
"rules" which major modes should follow so that these things can
work reliably.

Once that's done, it's only a matter of going around and adapting the
existing major modes to those rules, and providing some infrastructure
so that new major modes can follow those rules easily.


        Stefan