From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: CUSTOMIZE: Re: how to turn on showing end of file?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:17:09 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hau73l$lui$1@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6691.1252971966.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.6691.1252971966.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
<jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
>PD> I'd simply use the customise interface! Writing Elisp code...
>Sorry, for me I hate the customise interface, and can only deal with
>(setq ...) stuff.
>
>
I myself have never been able to profitably use the
customize interface.
MY problem is that, as with many menu-driven gui-interfaces (eg
main --> syntax --> foo-words --> regexp-search-for-special-word--FOO ),
is that I have no idea how to find anything, no idea of where to
even look for something.
What would be *really* nice would be a command that, starting
at whatever customize-node you're corrently at, would draw (indented text)
the entire "subtree" of it, all the way down to the leaf items.
AND really nice if also could output a .pdf-file of it -- and
if it turned out that same leaf item occurred under several
subtrees, so the tree became a directed graph, then via
some nifty-clever graph-drawing algorithm (such as at
Brown univ's site devoted to them), something we
could browse over via mouse, zoom, etc, even print out,
scotch-tape pages together, and hang on wall.
Plus the probably impossible: when new items added, some
kind of (graphic?) diff?
Otherwise, for me it's *info* and M-x Occur on the index,
that kind of thing.
PLEASE -- SOMEONE make customize easier to find things in!
Thanks!
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-12 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 20:19 how to turn on showing end of file? jidanni
2009-09-14 21:03 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-09-14 21:10 ` jidanni
2009-09-14 21:17 ` Andreas Politz
2009-09-14 21:22 ` jidanni
2009-09-14 21:25 ` jidanni
2009-09-14 21:30 ` jidanni
2009-09-14 21:41 ` jidanni
2009-09-14 23:37 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-09-14 23:45 ` jidanni
[not found] ` <mailman.6691.1252971966.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-12 3:17 ` David Combs [this message]
2009-10-13 7:08 ` CUSTOMIZE: " Tim X
2009-11-12 2:47 ` David Combs
2009-09-15 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6697.1252984271.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-15 7:54 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-09-16 5:15 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.6770.1253080347.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-16 14:18 ` Sébastien Vauban
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