Re: Buffers with buffers (transclusion)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vladimir Kazanov <vekazanov@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:53:44 +0100
> 
> Recently I got interested in the best way to share text between buffers.
> 
> This is very useful, and was discussed a bunch of times in the past
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-04/msg00141.html,
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-07/msg00863.html).
> There's also a nice overview of these discussions on Github:
> https://github.com/alphapapa/transclusion-in-emacs.
> 
> My personal interest was sparkled by a prototype of a tool I published
> recently (https://github.com/vkazanov/chunk-edit) that makes it
> possible to edit multiple buffers from within a single host one.
> 
> I would love some advice on what approach Emacs maintainers might be
> interested in. Here's are the ideas I have going from easy to hard:

Thanks, but it is hard to reason about the ideas and possible
implementations without knowing the intended functionalities and the
use cases this should support.  So my suggestion is to describe these
first.