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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
	Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Seeking advice on writing a "line-based" major mode
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:10:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <894f3596-e513-4f5a-ba0b-f5638be50f9d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fv5p30ff.fsf@mbork.pl>

> >> the buffer will contain a bunch of lines, each of them
> >> correspoding to some object (basically, I have a vector
> >> of these "objects", and I want to display them in some way).
> >
> > Sounds like a candidate for `tabulated-list-mode'.  You can
> > use that to print lines that are composed of one or more
> > columns, and a header line that let you sort by any column
> > (if you want).
> 
> Thanks for your tip, though after consideration I ended up using
> EWOC.

It might help others if you say why.  For example, what in your
problem context helped you decide that EWOC might be more useful
to it than `tabulated-list-mode'?



  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-18 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-07 21:16 Seeking advice on writing a "line-based" major mode Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-08  2:17 ` Drew Adams
2015-06-18  8:06   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-18 16:10     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-06-18 18:47       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-18 19:50         ` Drew Adams
2015-06-18 20:44           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-18 21:28             ` Drew Adams
2015-07-18 23:20           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-19  0:26             ` Robert Thorpe
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5261.1434643820.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-18 16:23       ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5215.1434614824.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-18 15:57     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-18 22:01       ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-20  1:28         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-08 13:37 ` Tom Tromey
2015-06-17 21:14   ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5205.1434575686.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-18  1:50     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-18  7:58       ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found] <mailman.4548.1433712325.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-07 22:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-07 22:48   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-07 22:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-07 22:49   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-08  0:09 ` Joost Kremers

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