Re: [Feature Discuss] Nested buffer

[Brett Gilio]

fei xiaobo writes:

> Hi all.
>
> I am building a plan to implement *Nested buffer* in Emacs 
> recently. Is it
> a good ideal?
>
> Nested buffer what I mean here is the sub-buffers which embedded 
> in a host
> buffer.
>
>    - Nested/Embed buffer's content is linked to an arbitrary 
>    buffer.
>    - Host buffer's content consists of the content of all the 
>    nested
>    buffers.
>
> If having this, we could embed multiple buffers' content into a 
> host buffer
> to get one virtual buffer. And, after updating the nested 
> buffer's content,
> the virtual host buffer's content is updated too. I think it 
> will be
> helpful for many special plugins.
>
> Appreciated any comments or suggestion.

Could you provide a scenario where you would find this feature to 
be
useful? I am not casting it off, but I am having a hard time 
thinking of
what it could be used for that Emacs doesn't already do.


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Brett M. Gilio
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