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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 'jrwats' <jrwats@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Specifying plist requirements in defcustom?
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:41:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001701c92edc$9066f880$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F6041E.5050707@gmail.com>

> >> From what I could tell, this worked, but I was also to have a user-
> >> friendly customization interface when a user, say, clicked 
> >> customoize corext-enlistments.  I'd like a prompt for the symbol-name,
> >> and the individual property list values: branch, drive, and path.
> >> It seems that to acheive something like this, I'd need to just make them
> >> alists....
> > 
> > You'll have to extend Customize to get that, AFAIK. Or 
> > write your own command to customize this particular option.
> > Customize doesn't really guide you with prompts and such.
> > Customize could use a little more guidance, especially for
> > complex structures such as this one.
> 
> I do not think that you have to extend Customize. Writing a new widget
> type should be enough.

I call that extending Customize. Customize out of the box won't provide that
behavior.

~All you have to do is write...~ means that it's not there already. Playing with
widgets is, in my book, extending Customize. And it's not necessarily a
clear-cut exercise.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-12 20:46 Specifying plist requirements in defcustom? jrwats
2008-10-12 23:18 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-13  1:31 ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.901.1223861517.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-15 14:32   ` jrwats
2008-10-15 14:50     ` Drew Adams
2008-10-15 14:54       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-15 15:41         ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1123.1224085332.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-15 16:27           ` jrwats
2008-10-15 16:33             ` jrwats
2008-10-15 16:48               ` jrwats
2008-10-15 16:58             ` Drew Adams
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1126.1224089933.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-15 17:43               ` jrwats

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