John Wiegley <[email protected]> writes: >>>>>> Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> writes: > >> Sounds similar to all.el (which is in GNU ELPA). >> If anybody's interested in merging those, that would be very welcome, > > all.el, grep.el, compile.el, occur.el, moccur.el, etc., they all fit the same > pattern:
And also wdired.el... > - Display a list of locations in a buffer, along with description text > related to that location. > > - The ability to press C-c C-c on a listed location and be taken there. > > - The ability to navigate locations from any buffer, e.g. C-x `. > > - Some have the ability that if the display text for a location is modified, > that change can be reflected back to the origin and made persistent. > I can see the potential for unifying all of these various modes, into a > hits.el or something. All we would need is text properties on every line with > sufficient information for traversal and persistence of changes. Then we > could do away with a lot of duplication (even within core Emacs as it stands > today). > > John -- William http://xwl.appspot.com _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
