On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:56:36 +0200 Stephen Berman wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:53:48 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >>> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:20:10 +0200 >>> From: Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, >>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" >>> >>> In buffers containing widgets, such as the Customize buffers, the >>> widgets can be either active or inactive: when you click (with the mouse >>> or RET) on an active widget, its associated action is executed, and when >>> you click on an inactive widget, this raises the error "Attempt to >>> perform action on inactive widget". You can navigate among the widgets >>> by pressing TAB or S-TAB to move point to the next or previous widget. >>> >>> I think it would be useful and convenient to skip over inactive widgets >>> when tabbing; e.g. you then avoid accidentally tabbing to an inactive >>> widget, typing RET and getting the error, and in a buffer with many >>> active and inactive widgets, you can tab more quickly to the desired >>> active widget by skipping over the inactive ones. >>> >>> The attached patch implements this behavior. Since tabbing to inactive >>> widgets has always been the behavior in the widget library, skipping is >>> conditioned on the value of a boolean defcustom, with the default being >>> the current non-skipping. >> >> This is OK, but please announce this new option in NEWS. > > Thanks; see the attached patch. I think this user option should also be > documented in the Widget manual, so the patch includes that as well. > The Widget manual has a node for widget customizations, so I added it > there. But I think it is helpful to mention it also in the node > "Widgets and the Buffer", where the tabbing commands `widget-forward' > and `widget-backward' are documented, so that patch does that too. If > you confirm this is ok, I'll push the code and doc changes to master. > > Steve Berman ... and here's the patch: