[climacs-devel] Marks, Buffers and Panes

[Robert Strandh]

Robert Strandh writes:
 > Hello, 
 > 
 >  > One answer would be to put a slot on delagatee buffers which points back
 >  > at their delegates. While convenient, I fear this breaks some part of
 >  > the abstraction. So I ask for comments.
 > 
 > I don't see why it would.  

Well, I do see why it would break the general idea that a buffer
should not know that it has a delegate at all.  If you are worried
about that, you could always use a weak hash table that translates
from buffers to delegates instead. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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