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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "John Wiegley" <jwiegley@gmail.com>,
	"Etienne Prud’homme" <e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Adding customization types
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:01:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b702f40c-312c-4f2b-994f-8ee9f15b83b9@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2377iw8p0.fsf@newartisans.com>

> PE> One of the widget (or type), I would like to get is major-mode and
> PE> probably minor-mode too. Is there any reason why it was never included?
> 
> EP> Given we could know if a symbol is a major-mode, would it be okay if I
> PE> made a patch for that (to be included in `wid-edit.el`)?
> 
> This sounds useful to me.
> 
> I also briefly looked for a general way to say "symbols matching a
> predicate", for one-off types similar to the above request. Is that possible?

1. Do you mean for completion when entering a symbol value for a
field?  If so, I don't think that has been implemented.

(In fact, it seem that if you try using `M-TAB' in such a
field you get the inappropriate error message "Not in an
editable field", instead of a more appropriate message
telling you that completion is not available in that field.
That seems like a bug in `widget-complete'.)

2. Do you instead mean a way to restrict a field value to be
a symbol that matches a given predicate?  If so, yes, you
can do that using custom type `restricted-sexp'.



      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-20  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-15 21:07 Adding customization types Etienne Prud’homme
2017-09-19 23:49 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-20  0:01   ` Drew Adams [this message]

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