From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: list-processes reimplementation, and list/menu buffers Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:01:31 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301923020 21293 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 13:17:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 13:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Leo Liu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 15:16:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6jeI-0005RG-Ly for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:16:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46108 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6jVp-0003Hz-6A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57087 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6jPx-0000j7-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6jPW-0001wn-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62878) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6jPV-0001wR-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p34D1ZrD012950 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p34D1Zqe016468; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p34D1Yd4011660; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id B5CC537848E; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 07:01:33 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Chong Yidong's message of "Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:48:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.11 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138112 Archived-At: >>>>> "Chong" == Chong Yidong writes: Chong> However, it would be cleaner to make a new `list-menu-mode' major mode, Chong> usable for general "list of stuff" buffers. Then both the list-packages Chong> and list-processes can derive from that major mode. With a bit more Chong> work, list-buffers could use it too. I will investigate this approach. FWIW, afterwards I wished I had written list-packages based on EWOC. Maybe that would be a suitable starting point. Tom