Re: A new filter-based customization interface

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > I added a screenshot of what such an interface might look like (which
  > is better than words).  https://justpaste.it/fdau4.

That site seems to depend on nonfree Javascript code.  Those of us who
block nonfree Javascript. or block Javascript entirely, cannot see
whatever you meant to show us.

Even worse, there are people on the lis who do not block nonfree
Javascript in their browsers.  By referring to that site, you are
promoting the use of nonfree software!  And, in the process,
legitimizing the use and distrbution of nonfree software -- which is
the direct opposite of the goal of GNU.

Would you please describe or present your idea in a way that we can
understand without running nonfree software?  Then we could all think
about adding it to Emacs.

Emacs already has a general configuration interface, which you can
access using M-x configure.  It at least tries to do what you have in
mind.  Your approach, if implemented without nonfree software,
might be better in some ways.

Would you like to familiarize yourself with M-x configure and related
commands, see what it does and what it doesn't do, and describe
your idea in terms of how it differs from what we already have?

Do the differences concern manner of display, or the semantics
of the customization methods?

M-x configure displays through Emacs buffers and Emacs redisplay
because that is the facility that is always avaiable (in Emacs).
Using some other basis could look nicer, but would be a lot more work
to implement and to maintain in various situations.

However, different semantics might not have such an obstacle.

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