Re: [ jEdit-devel ] does anyone use view-scope buffersets?

[Alan E. <ala...@gm...>]

Yes, we were very careful to make sure that if you did decide to use
non-global buffersets, that you could still do the same things you were
accustomed to doing before.
The main difference is, now you can have the buffersets shared by the 2
editpanes in the same view (which means closing a buffer in one editpane
causes it to be closed in the other too, and opening it in one editpane
causes it to be added to the list of buffers in the other, for example). For
some reason I thought having a shared bufferset across editpanes in the same
view was a neat idea, something between global and editpane in scope. But
now that we have options for how new editpanes can have a copy of existing
bufferset's bufferlist, and when we un-split, it does properly merge the two
buffersets into one, so effectively, you can get something that acts almost
exactly like view-scope buffersets by using EditPane + "copy of existing
bufferset". And now with the recent option of exclusive buffersets, it
becomes easier to keep the buffersets smaller when you have lots of views
and split panes.

For more info about buffer sets:

http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/buffersets.html


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Kevin Hunter <hu...@ea...> wrote:

> At 11:35am -0400 on Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Shlomy Reinstein wrote:
> > I use split edit panes very seldom, and when I do, it's usually either
> > for comparing files using JDiffPlugin, or for seeing different parts
> > of the same source file one near the other. So, a view bufferset scope
> > seems good for this, but I could live with an edit pane scope, as long
> > as I can have the same buffer open in two edit panes in the same view.
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >> We're thinking of removing it. It seems EditPane scope is good enough
> for
> >> everyone.  Speak up now or forever hold your peace.
>
> I'm not clear on what the view-scope does.  As an end-user, I almost
> always use a vertically split view.  Sometimes I split a view two or
> three times.  I enjoy the freedom to have all text areas arbitrarily
> show a buffer, either the same one or otherwise.
>
> Is that what it does?  If so, I don't care that you remove it, so long
> as I'm still able to have a split view, and am able to split and unsplit
> a view at will.
>
> Kevin
>