From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What standard library to use to provide settings editing to user?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:52:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehg0feyn.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ip5mvjw6.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com
On 2013-02-20, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> I write blogging mode and want to provide ability to users to list and edit
> connection settings.
>
> As I use external program to do actual authentication and network jobs so I
> don't use Emacs variables for storing settings.
>
> External process send list of parameters and their values. I should show them
> to user and return user modifications back to external process.
>
> Every parameter have a name and string value (possibly multi-line).
>
> What libraries or code examples are usable for solving such task?
Firstly I try use low level API:
(info "(elisp) Text Properties")
but stuck with:
(info "(elisp) Sticky Properties")
when I need to code boundary between editable and read-only areas...
After looking how is work "M-x customize-mode" I found:
(info "(widget)")
Some practice and I get working code. Most useful feature is 'widget-value'
function.
But some parts are very hard to understand. For example how can I make custom
face in widget-insert? I use such code, it work but I don't know if this right
usage:
(put-text-property 0 (length blog4y*conf-header-id) 'face 'bold blog4y*conf-header-id)
(widget-insert blog4y*conf-header-id id "\n\n")
--
Best regards!
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2013-02-20 19:56 What standard library to use to provide settings editing to user? Oleksandr Gavenko
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