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Re: Opening multiple files in a single buffer?


From: Perry Smith
Subject: Re: Opening multiple files in a single buffer?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:31:02 -0500


> On Jun 15, 2020, at 10:26 AM, Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> As I said, I think it should be easy to implement.
>> I also gave some pointers to get started.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> The underlying functionality needed for that has existed in Emacs "for 
>> ever", so no need for a future Emacs.  Someone just needs to implement it 
>> and make it available as a package.
>> 
> 
> Okay, thank you, I'll have a look at this.  Your sentence "For files that use 
> different major modes, it'd be more problematic, of course." made me think 
> you were suggesting something that would not do what I have in mind, but I 
> was wrong.

The major modes per file is “problematic” but it has been “done” kinda sorta.  
You can look at mmm-mode <https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MmmMode>.  I’ve toyed 
with it a little and decided to go another path.



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