From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New allout revisions Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:11:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200603131811.k2DIBMA26794@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <2cd46e7f0603130952v361cef17g6b77a9a0dcaa2add@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142274097 16522 80.91.229.2 (13 Mar 2006 18:21:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:21:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 13 19:21:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIrbJ-0003zv-Sq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:17:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIrbJ-00073r-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:17:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIrb6-000731-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIrb5-00072d-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIrb5-00072a-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:16:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FIrf6-0003DB-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:20:56 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.3+Sun/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k2DIGbc1021431; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:16:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id k2DIBMA26794; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:11:22 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: ken.manheimer@gmail.com In-reply-to: <2cd46e7f0603130952v361cef17g6b77a9a0dcaa2add@mail.gmail.com> (ken.manheimer@gmail.com) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.1 (manatee.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.104]); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:16:38 -0600 (CST) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51567 Archived-At: Ken Manheimer wrote: (in crafting the allout-default-layout custom variable type i was blocked by what seems to be a limit in the customization type protocol. the layout spec allows for nested expressions that are themselves layout specs, and so the type form is self-recurrent. i see no way, however to declare self-recurrent or even indirectly-recurrent type definitions. is there a way, in the current custom types system?) Did you read `(elisp)Defining New Types'? Sincerely, Luc.