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From: beede@pavo.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Michael Beede)
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Subject: Re: Sections in Gnu Emacs Buffers?
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In-reply-to: dayoung@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM's message of 26 Jan 89 18:23:46 GMT


It seems that the same effect (separating buffers into sections with
per-section variables, it would be simpler to allow windows to exist
without modelines.  Then a stack of windows each showing a different
buffer would represent the "sections" you need, and the contents could
be collected correctly when the buffer was saved (or whenever you
needed them).  There may even be a way to specify a modelineless
window, but I suspect it calls for modification of the display code.

This might be simple and useful enough that it could make it into the
GNU distribution, while I don't see section-local variables doing that
(possibly I am too foolish to see their obvious appeal, though).
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