Re: Buffers with buffers (transclusion)

[Vladimir Kazanov]

Eli, James,

> Yes, that's exactly the kind of thoughts I had when reading the
> description.  Why do we need to display text from different sources in
> the same buffer, when we already have side-by-side display in adjacent
> windows?  If the problem is the decoration which set windows apart, it
> is a minor issue to begin with, and we can make the separating
> decorations less prominent.

True, having a bunch of stacked windows, or  side by side windows,
works to an extent, and this is how I do it now. There are downsides
to this approach.

Firstly, all of the editing always happens in one of the windows, not
across windows: search/replace, occur, grep. Having things in one
buffer makes these things as easy as editing a single small file.

Also, the number of windows that can be comfortably used in this
manner is limited. 2? 3? 4?  Doing this within a single window is just
simpler.

Then, there's a performance question. One thing is to work on a 1-2k
LOC, another is to jump between buffers potentially having tens of
thousands of LOCs.

-- 
Regards,

Vladimir Kazanov