RE: Narrowing same buffer to different regions in two windows

[Drew Adams]

Save the file with a different name, so you can open it in two different
buffers. Narrow each buffer to the region you want. Then use
ediff-buffers. - Drew

-----Original Message-----From: Roy Smith
Compare-windows is neat, but it's not quite the same as narrowing.
I'm in one window and see a variable "foo".  I want to see if the
function in the other window also has "foo", so I go to the other
window and do "C-S foo".  Only with narrowing will I be sure that the
foo I found is in the function of interest.

>I've got a file with two large sections of very similar text that I
>want to examine and compare (it's C++, and a previous author did a
>"cut, paste, and modify" job instead of refactoring).  What I'd like
>to do is split the screen into two windows, and do narrow-to-region in
>each window, ending up with each window looking at a distinct section
>of the file.
>
>The problem is, narrowing works per-buffer, not per-window.  Is there
>anyway to do what I want?