Re: linked-buffer.el 0.1

[Phillip Lord]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 21:48:54 +0000 address@hidden (Phillip Lord) wrote: 
>
> PL> This is the first (pre)-release of linked-buffer.el. Create two buffers
> PL> with the same (or nearly the same) content but which are otherwise
> PL> independent; different modes, different files are all possible. As well
> PL> as supporting buffers with identical content, it also supports buffers
> PL> with a bi-directional transformation between them.
>
> Also related, in addition to indirect-buffers: shadowfile.el:
>
> ;;  This package helps you to keep identical copies of files in more than one
> ;;  place - possibly on different machines.  When you save a file, it checks
> ;;  whether it is on the list of files with "shadows", and if so, it tries to
> ;;  copy it when you exit Emacs (or use the shadow-copy-files command).
>
> Seems like a subcase.


Didn't know about this one. Yes, linked-buffers would do most of this,
although I suspect inefficiently since it keeps the buffer up to-date
the whole time. From what I can see of shadowfile.el it copies before
exit.

This is why I posted linked-buffer.el early; I didn't want to spend
weeks on it, to find out that it had already been done.

Phil