On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.berlios.de> wrote: > My beloved Jed text editor has a generic "narrow" feature that limits > all editing operations to the current selection until undone by "widen". > (I think this originates from Emacs.)
This sounds like it could be implemented as: 1) Copy selection 2) Paste selection into temporary buffer 3) (User edits selection in temporary buffer) 4) On widen, paste the selection back into the parent document, overwriting the currently selected text. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted
