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Re: Seeking advice on writing a "line-based" major mode


From: Marcin Borkowski
Subject: Re: Seeking advice on writing a "line-based" major mode
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:49:24 +0200

On 2015-06-08, at 00:28, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> I'm going to start coding a major mode, a bit like
>> dired or grep-mode or org-agenda mode, in which the
>> buffer will contain a bunch of lines, each of them
>> correspoding to some object (basically, I have
>> a vector of these "objects", and I want to display
>> them in some way).
>
> By the way, "line-based" is confusing because it makes
> you think about the line *editors* (e.g., ed).

What term would you propose for a library that establishes a one-to-one
relationship between some collection of objects and lines in some
buffer?

> But I understand what you mean so I suppose confusion
> was kept at an acceptable level.

I would hope so! ;-)

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



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