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Hi,

This looks very, very interesting! I read your documentation (good job on that, by the way), but don't fully understand how it works, so I'll just ask: would this be suitable for a log-like buffer, like an IRC chat room? For example, I've been working on matrix-client.el for a while, and after I worked on that for a while, I discovered ewoc.el, and I've been thinking about giving it a try for implementing the UI.

Is rem.el suitable for that kind of use? If not, have you thought about it, and would it be possible to add support for it?

For example, in matrix-client.el, each room has a list of message events, newest first. We manually render messages into the room buffer at the appropriate location when they arrive. It would be nice to have a higher-level solution that would simply render the list of message events to the buffer appropriately; that is, it would determine which messages are new and render them in the appropriate position in the message buffer (considering that events may arrive out-of-order), without re-rendering all of the messages every time (which would perform poorly, of course).

Thanks.