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Re:Why Emacs has buffers by chimprich on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @02:05PM (#31658030)
What happens if you open two buffers to view two parts of the same document (easy in Emacs, not possible in lots of editors)? If you switch focus or close one, what are you manipulating? Not the document.

You could choose a different name (view?) but it's a different abstraction compared to a "document".

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Re:Why Emacs has buffers by trelane on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @02:23PM (#31658227)
Did you mean two windows in the same buffer? Or did you mean opening the same file in two buffers, each attached to its own window?
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