Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Wish: Editing multi file documents more conveniently

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Instead of visiting foo, its contents could be displayed directly
>>> (replacing the \include{foo}) as if it was part of the including
>>> file. To distinguish the including file's content from the included
>>> one's another face (background) could be used (like it's done when
>>> folding environments). When point moves out of the included file's
>>> region it collapsed back to \include{foo}.
>>>
>>> In my opinion the second approch (with the folding Look & Feel) would
>>> be extremely nifty, but may be hard to implement.
>>
>> Without a buffer-visible text, editing is not useful.
>
> What do you mean with buffer-visible text?

Text that is visible in the buffer to the buffer's operation.  The
actual buffer text is \include{foo}, and that is what is visible to
searching and editing.

>>> What do you mean?
>>
>> Why do you use \include if you want to edit one large file, anyway?
>
> I knew that somebody would come up with this and the main reason is,
> that I have to deal with other people's files, or the beamer class
> requires several files (for presentation, beamer and content). ;-)

Well, there are some operations in the Ref/Global Actions menu.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum