On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 08:18 Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed,  8 Mar 2023 at 15:19, Yuan Fu wrote:
>
> > Orthogonal to Augusto’s function, but I think something like this
> > would be nice: a function that pops up a buffer and enters recursive
> > edit for arbitrary input and edit, and when you hit C-c C-c, it
> > returns the buffer content, kind of like Magit’s commit buffer. Plus
> > buffer content validator (eg, validate JSON), and arbitrary major
> > modes in the buffer, etc.
>
> This sounds like a generally useful thing for Emacs.  There should be a
> version without recursive edit which calls a callback function when
> quitting.
>

Of course, that won't work as a drop-in replacement for the read-* family
that uses the minibuffer.

João

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