deactivated/edit-thing-el

narrow-to-region on steroids

edit-thing.el

edit-thing.el is like narrow-to-region on steroids.

Rather than merely narrowing the current buffer, or using narrowing an indirect buffer, edit-thing will synchronize the contents of a region with an entirely independent buffer.

Although this strategy is decidedly more heavy-weight, it is compatible with even the most finicky major modes. edit-thing can also "dedent" the edit-buffer to improve indentation behavior when editing blocks of code.

Installation

(require 'edit-thing)`

Usage

Select a region and invoke (edit-thing-edit-region).

edit-thing-el's Issues

fix indirect buffer naming

Buffer names generated by edit-thing-edit-region collide, which is fundamentally broken.

Desired behavior:

• If major mode isn't specified, use the template * [parent-name] (n) *
• If the major mode is specified, use the template * [parent-name] ([edit-mode] n) *
• Add a customize variable for using a user-defined function

undo behaves poorly in the edit buffer

self-insert-command actions don't get properly coalesced, which is incredibly annoying.

undo behaves poorly in the primary buffer

Desired behavior is to set an undo point just before indirect editing starts and to create a new undo point only when the primary buffer point changes between updates.

remove hard dependency on popwin.el