From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'jrwats' <jrwats@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Specifying plist requirements in defcustom?
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:54:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F6041E.5050707@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006f01c92ed5$5b49e150$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams wrote:
>>> (defcustom corext-enlistments nil
>>> "..."
>>> :type
>>> '(repeat
>>> (restricted-sexp
>>> :match-alternatives
>>> ((lambda (x) (and (symbolp x)
>>> (let ((pl (symbol-plist x)))
>>> (and (plist-get pl 'branch)
>>> (plist-get pl 'drive)
>>> (plist-get pl 'path)))))))))
>>>
>> 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.
> There are a lot of ways in which Customize could be improved, but no one seems
> to want to work on it. Many Emacs developers have, I think, written it off as
> being either (1) superfluous (~real Emacs users don't use Customize~, meaning
> that they don't use it) or (2) too difficult/bothersome (the Customize code is
> hard to follow). No flames please - that's just one person's impression.
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-15 14:54 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) [this message]
2008-10-15 15:41 ` Drew Adams
[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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