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Re: Modes within modes |
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Fri, 07 Nov 2003 20:52:11 GMT |
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>>>> Gareth Rees writes:
Gareth> The simplest way to do this is to use
Gareth> 'clone-indirect-buffer' (C-x 4 c) and use A-mode in the
Gareth> original buffer and B-mode in the cloned buffer. Put the
Gareth> two buffers in adjacent windows and switch between them
Gareth> when you want the features of the other mode. See the
Gareth> Info node (emacs)Indirect Buffers.
This method seems to partially work. I can clone an html buffer (in
html mode) and switch to the cloned buffer and issue M-x text-mode.
The modes are correct for each buffer however they seem to share
fontification.
So if I do M-x font-lock-fontify-buffer while in the text-mode buffer
I see the changes in both. Same if I issue the command in the
html-mode buffer... the text-mode buffer then gets fontified for html.
I'm using cvs, so perhaps it's just my version. If this is a known
limitation of clone-indirect however, then it wouldn't be as useful a
method for multiple modes (at least for me).
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