Re: Buffers with buffers (transclusion)

[Vladimir Kazanov]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for taking a look at *chunk-edit*! It is an early prototype
which I shared to check if people are interested in this kind of work.

> However, for me the fatal issue is that chunk-edit-mode replaces the active 
> major mode, so that indentation, and presumably other things, are not handled 
> properly. I think any approach to this has to deal with that properly — 
> maintaining the correct major mode in chunk.

One way of developing chunk-edit.el would be to port tricks used in
polymode, which supports having multiple major modes within a single
buffer. For now *chunk-edit* does provide syntax highlighting in the
same way org-mode supports it in src blocks.

> It think my particular use case could instead be handled with zones.el. Not 
> sure about the case where you have, e.g., someone wanting to edit a region in 
> a C header file and a region in a C source file, in the same buffer. I 
> suppose that might be useful, e.g., when using search and replace macros and 
> such like.

Right now I am exploring the best way to bring in chunks of text from
secondary buffers into the host buffer.  This is useful for
*chunk-edit*, and some org-mode ideas, and probably many more things.

-- 
Regards,

Vladimir Kazanov