Eduardo Mercovich <edua...@mercovich.net> writes: > Hi Adam. > >>> Also less known that it deserves, for focusing I do use narrowing a >>> lot: [...] > >> Yeah, that's basically what tree-to-indirect does, it makes an indirect >> buffer and then narrows it. So you can widen the indirect buffer and get >> another view of the whole buffer. [...] > > Excuse me if this sounds almost philosophical, but in which situation an > indirect buffer may be better that just focusing on the same (original) > buffer? For example, when you are toying with potentially big > modifications and don't want to replace the original? Is it like opening > a parallel path to try things without worries? > No - if you change the indirect buffer, you change the base buffer as well. See
(info "(elisp) Indirect buffers") For some uses, see https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IndirectBuffers -- nick
