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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] fixing emacs
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Tom Lord |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] fixing emacs |
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Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:49:22 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Tom> For starters, I'd start just with "dialog-box" style
> Tom> functionality. Is there a mechanism by which I can put up a
> Tom> form with buttons, and check-boxes, and lists, and so forth,
> Tom> rendered with native widgets?
> Yes, in 21.4. Publicly released in April 2001. The feature was
> available in devo since about 1997. [....]
> Tom> The redisplay engine, to display a window on a 'dialog
> Tom> buffer, should build a widget tree. Widget-callbacks and so
> Tom> forth should be hidden from Emacs lisp -- just translated
> Tom> into (perhaps new types of) events which the major-mode of
> Tom> the 'dialog buffer can decide how to handle. I doubt that
> Tom> that would require major changes to the redisplay engine.
> Not any more. I don't know how much was required when it was done 4
> years ago.
Either you've misunderstood what I've proposed or you have a web site
problem in the sense that your website gives no obvious hint of these
capabilities.
I'll start a download of xemacs tonight before turning in. What do
you suggest I run to see where things are at (sorry, you've suggested
some in the thread -- but could you summarize, with this capability in
mind and also point to the the right .el files to read.
> Tom> 1) Windows and frames: I think it would be awefully nice to
> Tom> sqeeze into window-separators and modelines some tiny
> Tom> controls for splitting windows and deleting windows.
> Ancient history. I don't think we have that by default but I know
> there are hacks for it.
Same deal -- I'm just going off your screenshots. What should I do
to enable this?
> Tom> anemic subprocess mgt; etc
> Tom> my bet would be that 'dialog buffers alone would find a lot
> Tom> of use
> You're wrong. They've been available for years, and nobody uses
> them,
Well, let's see whether or not we're really talking about the same
thing.
> or even requests them. They'd be great in Custom, but Custom is so
> fragile and unstable that nobody is willing to rewrite in a way that
> makes the quarterly GNU synch harder. GNU Emacs doesn't support them,
> so it's too much pain for too little gain.
You've captured my interest, at least. Let's figure out what's up.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation [was: funding free software R&D], (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation [was: funding free software R&D], Andrew Suffield, 2003/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation, Andrew Suffield, 2003/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation, Tom Lord, 2003/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/08/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation, Tom Lord, 2003/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/08/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] fixing emacs (was Re: Architectural renovation), Tom Lord, 2003/08/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] fixing emacs, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/08/30
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] fixing emacs,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation, Colin Walters, 2003/08/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] Architectural renovation [was: funding free software R&D], Tom Lord, 2003/08/28
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] Architectural renovation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/08/29