[climacs-cvs] CVS update: climacs/Doc/climacs-user.texi

[Robert Strandh]

Update of /project/climacs/cvsroot/climacs/Doc
In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7293

Modified Files:
	climacs-user.texi 
Log Message:
Added a chapter describing a proposal to change the buffer/pane
relations.  This chapter will disappear once the proposal is
implemented, and the description of the existing key bindings will be
altered.


Date: Wed Oct 19 20:03:08 2005
Author: rstrandh

Index: climacs/Doc/climacs-user.texi
diff -u climacs/Doc/climacs-user.texi:1.6 climacs/Doc/climacs-user.texi:1.7
--- climacs/Doc/climacs-user.texi:1.6	Sat Sep 24 20:53:48 2005
+++ climacs/Doc/climacs-user.texi	Wed Oct 19 20:03:07 2005
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 * Kill ring::
 * Advanced editing commands::
 * Getting help::
+* Proposal for new buffer/pane relations::
 * Key Index::
 * Concept Index::
 @end menu
@@ -604,6 +605,41 @@
 bound to an order, that order will displayed in the minibuffer.
 Otherwise, a message indicating that the command is not bound to any
 order will be displayed. 
+
+ at node Proposal for new buffer/pane relations
+ at chapter Proposal for new buffer/pane relations
+
+There is a proposal on the table to make the way @climacs{} manages
+buffers and panes incompatible with that of Emacs, and in the process
+thus cleaning up 30 years of baggage. 
+
+The proposal is to no longer allow buffers without panes.  Instead, a
+buffer will always be associated with at least one pane, though that
+pane could be adopted or disowned to make it visible or invisible. 
+The advantage of this organization is that a buffer will no longer
+contain a point.  Also, panes can contain other things that buffers
+such as buffer lists, debugger applications, etc.
+
+For this to work, we need to define how the effect of certain
+commands related to buffers and windows will be altered.  The proposal
+is: 
+
+C-x 2 creates an additional pane with its own point and that shares
+the buffer of the current pane.  It also adopts the new pane by the
+same mechanism used now (creating a vbox pane containing the two.  C-x
+3 is similar except that it uses a hbox instead.
+
+C-x 0 does not destroy the pane, but just disowns it (by replacing the
+rack it is in by the pane itself).  
+
+C-x 1 does the equivalent of C-x 0 on all other visible panes.
+
+C-x k kills the current pane.  If that happens to be the last pane
+containing a particular buffer, then the buffer is lost as well.
+
+C-x b replaces the current pane by some arbitrary pane displaying the
+buffer that has been requested (or creates a new buffer and a new pane
+if the buffer requested does not exist?).
 
 @node Key Index
 @unnumbered Key Index