From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Ben Bacarisse <ben.lists@bsb.me.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interactively edit a list of strings
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:22:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sbueg2r.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3e27ocq.fsf@bsb.me.uk>
On 2018-07-23, at 03:05, Ben Bacarisse <ben.lists@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
> Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:
>
>> Am looking for a good way to interactively edit a list of strings,
>> that is, to allow the user to selectively delete strings from the list.
>> Any suggestions on how to implement this?
>>
>> My first thought is to write each string on a separate line in a
>> temporary buffer, allow the user to edit that, then reassemble the
>> buffer into a list, however, that isn't ideal, it allows too much
>> freedom to modify the content. I could restrict the allowable
>> commands to deleting lines, but am wondering if there is a better way.
>
> You might consider using widgets:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/widget.html
>
> You could write the strings as an "editable-list" widget without the
> [INS] buttons so only a [DEL] button available.
Nice idea, though a bit of work. But widget.el is very powerful! (I
wrote about it also in 2015:
http://mbork.pl/2015-11-21_The_Emacs_widget_library_and_automatic_modification_of_editing_fields)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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2018-07-23 1:05 ` Interactively edit a list of strings Ben Bacarisse
2018-07-23 4:22 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2018-07-24 8:51 ` Stephen Berman
2018-07-22 23:55 Joe Riel
2018-07-23 2:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-07-23 4:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-07-23 5:39 ` Joe Riel
2018-07-23 11:33 ` Yuri Khan
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