From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs forms input Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:39:26 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8762zp6s4h.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87sk2uzrlr.fsf@mithlond.arda> <877hk6vbg0.fsf@mithlond.arda> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291864224 25324 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 03:10:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:10:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 04:10:20 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQWte-0001kz-Ii for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:10:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44894 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQWV8-0001lK-M5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:44:58 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net sVqulVj4krGG7+l1oZfyalcrhSOwQ+5QRNod63i2kMLJCwXUhLR9UyXIOwJLz33fLVvM3MRPWb0j2pfRrKoL1NGSe1IYMNQCi/9+x/URIppVx+vtHdnCyi5c48GT6rS4 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:39:27 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: YF2zSTlQU1tE0XkuUdWp4U312Np3J6KK1hMosUYAbOk= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:/1IlqinV9Zg0SfFniUSesnktGqA= sha1:WSlcgeBXUYRs/XDU0CFh0O5Pqvk= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: qjNlW86Zbb6uRA/87pwzf83yM8wspqoCBIDPM1EuxzI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180407 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:76522 Archived-At: On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:29:25 +0200 Lennart Borgman wrote: LB> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote: >> Thanks, that helps; but I was looking for something more: not simply >> choosing a command from a menu, but displaying a dialog with multiple >> fields, letting the user fill some of them, and getting the result -- >> like displaying an HTML
. LB> I know of no such general solution, but I have tried to do something LB> like that in "M-x search-form" in nXhtml. Gnus has assistant.el which is very general and IMHO suitable for data collection. It supports all the Emacs widgets, I think. It's not Gnus-specific although the intent is to eventually use it to set up Gnus interactively. Ted