From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: use new custom group to adjust ascii files Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:14:36 +0200 Message-ID: <487C4E5C.5010706@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216114851 11035 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2008 09:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: f.braennstroem@gmx.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 15 11:41:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KIh2M-0005Ga-KM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:41:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIh1U-0000jW-BL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:40:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIgtR-0003BM-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:32:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIgtO-00039n-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:32:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54097 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIglg-0008SS-I3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:24:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:48549) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIfph-0004lu-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:24:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIekD-0002Ys-1t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:62551 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KIekA-0001by-5p; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:14:39 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080712-0, 2008-07-12), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KIekA-0001by-5p. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KIekA-0001by-5p 751552be43a3bf7dc8befc53875bfb4a X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55594 Archived-At: Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi Lennart, > > * Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >> Fabian Braennstroem wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wonder, if emacs' customize group buffer 'mode' can be >>> used as a simple gui to adjust some ascii files!? >>> I.e. the ascii files are used for configuration of a >>> different external program. Would be nice, if anyone has >>> a suggestion! >>> Thanks! >> Hi Fabian >> >> You probably want to look at Emacs widgets. In Emacs 22 or later do >> >> C-h i >> >> and then search for "widget". > > Thanks for the hint! Looks nice, though I did not understand > howto get the right x11 feeling into it... I'll try it out > in the next days. Emacs widgets looks like what you see in Custom buffers. However the internal API for widgets are such that they can be replaced by for example xwidgets or something similar if someone some day finds the time to do it.