From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs setup assistants Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:11:49 -0400 Sender: xemacs-beta-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: References: <87zn847n6a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <1438-Thu20May2004203119+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085148937 30198 80.91.224.253 (21 May 2004 14:15:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org Original-X-From: xemacs-beta-admin@xemacs.org Fri May 21 16:15:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRAo3-0007T9-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([199.184.165.135]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRAo2-0000kD-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id i4LEC4s19560; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:12:08 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) id i4LEBwL19479 for xemacs-beta-mailman@xemacs.org; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:11:58 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) id i4LEBqZ19434 for turnbull@tux.org; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:11:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [199.232.76.164]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id i4LEBps19426 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:11:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BRAkX-0000L8-NK; Fri, 21 May 2004 10:11:49 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: <1438-Thu20May2004203119+0300-eliz@gnu.org> X-XEmacs-List: beta Errors-To: xemacs-beta-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: XEmacs Beta Testers List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:14781 gmane.emacs.devel:23814 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23814 Indeed. That's why I didn't think about organizing by variable names, like Customize does today. What we need is some way of creating a buffer where options are layed out in a certain order defined by the author of the assistant, and are interspersed with short fragments of descriptive text. Maybe we can combine these two ideas, using Texinfo to control the generation of a kind of Custom buffer. It needs to limit itself to the existing Texinfo constructs if it is to be viable. But it could have special conventions for what to put in them, which would guide this process. For instance, an @example containing nothing but one variable name perhaps followed by a comment could be the direction to insert the customization info for that variable.