From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
      
   > Emacs has this feature called “overlays”, which let you set custom   
   > display attributes for portions of a text buffer. This can include   
   > completely hiding the text. That can be handy if you want to look at   
   > two parts of a source file while temporarily ignoring some irrelevant   
   > details in-between.   
      
   That's one of the fundamental objectives of literate programming.  By   
   the way, comp.programming.literate has been restored very recently.   
      
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