From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33007: 27.0.50; Proposal for function to edit and return string Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:41:37 +0300 Message-ID: <83efcvwd4u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86pnwh4je8.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com> <83bm81xl84.fsf@gnu.org> <20181011063321.GD27672@protected.rcdrun.com> <87lg74zk2k.fsf@web.de> <834ldsy31m.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3b4xmjk.fsf@web.de> <83tvlrx02s.fsf@gnu.org> <875zy7xv6d.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539348106 30526 195.159.176.226 (12 Oct 2018 12:41:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:41:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bugs@gnu.support, 33007@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 14:41:42 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlB-0007p9-ER for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:41:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwnH-0001yZ-W2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:43:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50417) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlX-0000nI-CW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlW-0003YE-MJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlW-0003Y2-Hw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlW-0007wn-9L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:42:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:42:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33007 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33007-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33007.153934811430534 (code B ref 33007); Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:42:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33007) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Oct 2018 12:41:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45990 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlN-0007wQ-Ph for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:41:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40671) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlM-0007wE-RS for 33007@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlC-00035i-JA for 33007@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34893) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlC-00035I-Df; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1389 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gAwlB-0000bs-9j; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:41:42 -0400 In-reply-to: <875zy7xv6d.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:26:34 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:151168 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Cc: bugs@gnu.support, 33007@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:26:34 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I meant the infrastructure they use. Customize uses widgets, AFAIR. > > But in Customize or EWW, you already have a buffer you can use for > input. In the cases I described, you don't. If you e.g. want to query > the user for a (possibly longer) note to attach to an article in Gnus, > or want to query for a new note to capture (org), there is just no > buffer at hand to place a widget. I just wanted to point out places where we do something similar, in case we could reuse or refactor what they do, instead of inventing from scratch. I'm not saying that, because we have all those places, we don't need the proposed feature.