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adh
adh

Reputation: 123

Emacs: multiple views of same file

I'm trying to view the same file in 2 buffers, one at normal scale and the other zoomed out, to see the whole buffer (as in notepad++ document map: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/assets/images/docMap.png ).

Is there any way visit the same file in different buffers, so that each buffer can have different settings?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 1605

Answers (2)

Trey Jackson
Trey Jackson

Reputation: 74420

Try M-x clone-indirect-buffer (or M-x clone-indirect-buffer-other-window aka C-x 4 c), and then you can set the font in one of the buffers real small.

You can make the font smaller or larger in a buffer with the bindings C-x C-- or C-x C-+, which run the command text-scale-adjust.

There was a mode that someone made that did this splitting/shrinking automatically, but I'm unable to find it.

Upvotes: 18

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 28531

You want to install the minimap package (it's in GNU ELPA) which does just that.

Upvotes: 9

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