Re: cannot edit two source code examples simultaneously

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 18, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Taru Karttunen wrote:

> Excerpts from Dan Davison's message of Mon May 18 09:07:11 +0300 2009:
>> I think it's more complicated than that: source code loss is also the
>> motivation for doing something like this. If you are editing the  
>> code in
>> the *Org Edit Src* buffer, and get distracted, you may return to  
>> the org
>> buffer and mistakenly decide that it contains the latest content.  
>> I've
>> done that two or three times in the last couple of days, resulting in
>> lost work. That mistake cannot be made so easily when there is only  
>> ever
>> one current copy of the code. If you close emacs without C-c ', or  
>> your
>> laptop power runs out, then I agree that is bad, but I thought  
>> perhaps
>> there might be a good solution along these lines. Maybe an  
>> alternative
>> would be to maintain a work-in-progress message along with the
>> out-of-date code?
>
> How about this - set the source code with a special overlay/property
> when editing it. The property could turn the code into a link to the
> buffer and set it read-only.

This sounds like a good idea.  However, it seems that putting a read- 
only property using an overlay does not work - does anyone know why?   
I'd prefer an overlay over text properties here....


- Carsten