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[81.203.145.32]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ef10sm18892810wjd.49.2015.07.17.08.53.49 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:53:50 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 In-Reply-To: <55A860FD.5090008@gmail.com> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:105007 Archived-At: On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:27:17 +0530 Vaidheeswaran C wrote: > On Thursday 16 July 2015 11:48 PM, Raffaele Ricciardi wrote: > > > the widget interface that Customize creates is tightly tied to > > `Custom-mode'. Yet, the same interface could be useful to any > > package that requires users to perform some kind of complex > > configuration (for example: configuring a software project before > > compiling). > > Do you want something more than what is documented in this node: > > (info "(eieio) Customizing") > No, I don't. EIEIO is not a renowned package -- the Emacs Lisp Reference mentions it only once cursorily, and it seems that only CEDET uses it -- hence I hadn't looked into it. EIEIO Custom Mode could look more similar to Custom Mode, but I infer that these modes were written independently, hence achieving a similar *look and feel* could require too much refactoring. Anyway, it seems that the lambdas inside `eieio-custom-object-apply-reset' could be extracted as commands, so that users could bind them to keys. Thanks for your assistance.