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phillord / lentic

Create views of the same content in two Emacs buffers
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Suggestion: In README.md, explain what differentiates lentic from Emacs' "indirect buffers" #2

Closed flexibeast closed 9 years ago

flexibeast commented 9 years ago

It might be useful to list the advantages lentic provides over Emacs' built-in "indirect buffers" functionality.

phillord commented 9 years ago

This is mostly documented in lentic.el, but will put something in README.md.

indirect-buffers are fundamentally broken because they share both text and text-properties. With lentic buffers you can choose what to share (by default only text). You don't even have to have identical text in both buffers.

flexibeast commented 9 years ago

Thanks. :-) Yeah, on lentics page on MELPA, the commentary in lentic.el is displayed; but i first encountered lentic via its main GitHub page, where README.md still refers to "linked-buffer" in various ways. (Fwiw, i've started using el2markdown to keep my "Commentary" section and README.md in sync, even though doing so results in some ugly effects on packages' MELPA pages.)

phillord commented 9 years ago

I have missed the README in the rename search and replace!

Keeping two sources files in sync and in git is, of course, the worst thing about using something both as a website AND as a version control system. I'll update the readme soon, and link through to the HTML source.