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From: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
To: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Interactively edit a list of strings
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:55:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180722165540.209abe10@gauss> (raw)

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.

-- 
Joe Riel




             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-22 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-22 23:55 Joe Riel [this message]
2018-07-23  2:39 ` Interactively edit a list of strings Eric Abrahamsen
2018-07-23  4:21   ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-07-23  5:39     ` Joe Riel
2018-07-23 11:33       ` Yuri Khan
     [not found] <mailman.4060.1532303750.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-23  1:05 ` Ben Bacarisse
2018-07-23  4:22   ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-07-24  8:51   ` Stephen Berman

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