From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: list-processes reimplementation, and list/menu buffers
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:20:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r59gcmjq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8vvo4dqs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:04:58 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> I think an important feature of this parent mode is that it handles
> tabulated data (as opposed to things like completion-list-mode), so
> that might give us a clue for what name to give it. Maybe
> tabulated-list-mode?
It's a bit wordy, but I can't come up with anything better, so OK.
>> I looked into using ewoc, but it seemed to provide little benefit,
>> because there's no complex insertion or deletion of data entries being
>> performed; for both the package-menu and process-menu, entries are just
>> regenerated from scratch each time anyway.
>
> Agreed. But it would be desirable to use ewoc on top of this new parent
> mode, for modes such as VC-Dir.
Yes, good point. I think this should be easy to arrange.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-05 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-04 0:48 list-processes reimplementation, and list/menu buffers Chong Yidong
2011-04-04 1:06 ` Leo
2011-04-04 6:52 ` Leo
2011-04-04 13:01 ` Tom Tromey
2011-04-05 16:09 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-05 21:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-05 23:20 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-04-06 20:49 ` Chong Yidong
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