RE: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs

[arthur miller]

Here is a picture of how it looks like:

http://dev.brackets.io/preso/intro/assets/features/brackets-quick-edit-js.PNG

I don't know if they have trademark for "quick edit" :-), but since they actually develop Brackets as open source, I hope they keep their terms open source as well. I also hope they didn't patented :).

As Stephan wrote, it could be seen as analogy to a link, but instead of visiting a link the text is pulled into the current buffer under the cursor. I used "intellisense" analogy because I was thinking of context awareness indeed, not of the looks. But link analaogy is indeed better.

I think difference of editing in new window, versus pulling piece of buffer into same window, makeing seemles illusion of editing same file, is workflow
enhacement. If I may take freedom to allude on another such workflow enhacement, I would compare it to difference between Vi and Emacs, and "direct  text" editing as in Emacs compared to "command mode" editing as in Vi. I think it is such kind of a difference.

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> A quick peek+edit in a #include in C, or "use My::Module" in Perl (where
> you can say `perldoc -l My::Module' to find the module file), etc. would
> be handy.
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> We already have such features, but they display the other file in
> another buffer. Why is it useful to put them in one buffer?
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> What does it look like, to have multiple files in one buffer?
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