Re: Embedded doc editting and indirect buffers

[karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

    Greg> karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
    >> Has anyone thought of using the `make-indirect-buffer' feature
    >> of emacs to create a `c-comment-edit'-like mode for editting
    >> embedded documentation?  Or does it already exist?

    Greg> This would be highly nifty for editing embedded docbook
    Greg> markup with psgml-mode; it's a bit tedious to not have any
    Greg> editor support when writing DocBook sgml in the Scwm
    Greg> embedded docs.  (Keep me updated as to any private
    Greg> responses.)

 XEmacs-21.2 beta has the `indirect-buffers' feature now, thanks to
 Hrvoje Niksic.  It works pretty well, but the copy I'm running right
 now will crash if you use search and replace in an indirect buffer.

 There are a few uncommitted patches he sent through this week that
 are needed before it will be stable enough to use...  I imagine that
 by next week sometime they'll have it in CVS.  You might want to
 become a beta tester and try it out. :-) http://cvs.xemacs.org

 You can find the -r tag you need for 21.2 by browsing the repository
 there with cvsweb.

 I guess Emacs 20 also has this feature; though it cannot manage
 separate font locking / text properties in the main buffer and the
 indirect buffer like XEmacs can.