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> I think that kind of interface could be built upon a low level
> interface, but the important thing to discus at this point is rather
> the low level interface. Otherwise I think we might soon has multiple
> ways of doing this.

The proposal is to completely avoid any low-level changes, and only work
at the level of regions.  Actually, there might be some changes at
a lowish level to handle highlighting, but that's about it.

That would be of no help for multi-mode buffers, of course.


        Stefan