Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Re: Why no window-local mapping?

> mappings local to a specific syntax region (inspired by TextMate?).

In Emacs, you have overlays (arbitrary text regions) that can store
metadata about the text within that region and have special mappings.
IIRC this also makes it easy to define popup menus specific to that
region.

I don't think this would make things overly complicated. IMHO it would
rather simplify writing certain type of plugins that now have to store
that metadata someplace.

You could simplify window-local maps with buffer-local maps that
behave differently depending on the value of a window-local variable,
I guess.

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