From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33007: 27.0.50; Proposal for function to edit and return string Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:20:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3b4xmjk.fsf@web.de> References: <86pnwh4je8.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com> <83bm81xl84.fsf@gnu.org> <20181011063321.GD27672@protected.rcdrun.com> <87lg74zk2k.fsf@web.de> <834ldsy31m.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539289279 20544 195.159.176.226 (11 Oct 2018 20:21:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 20:21:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: bugs@gnu.support, 33007@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 22:21:14 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAhSM-0005Ep-Gp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:20:49 +0200 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([94.218.210.177]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb004 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MHuv7-1g78gO1vXp-003bvT; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:20:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <834ldsy31m.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:24:21 +0300") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:jZre0kEmVmMFqYAoiM9fknwD6I6sBfq0RBSVye0VFU9wer2d1TO +fbaXSKU7chB5RIti8Sjy0Ck/Kh7pWzj4BC9ufRvGWKvd881YlBPjGCBZem+Bsmn/Q3ME/w 6cPUrEpZfDXCSP5fBrZUSUKixdSiKGpQ8CsD2BLmCsCcVtmrQqvF3/q1agg6FfWfNM0rxr9 QB6GiHmpMhVRQZR8gVCPg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:UCtR1DhcC9E=:P9zRkIihVPmkqBoOsx0V36 nzEfifsCj01arW+AXYGYtr7kWIPIDSX1HTB9CanMSmh4X+XLQs/jMnasp4O6ZgMWIBBdBAFmN VICS+9p748j0uIGV+KN/f5O5mbEV9K0Q8MlyAcVsG9nZ6lS2GXpNvwqgOU1WTJm51vpgOE18U rt/w+fh7sEjT+u054ibHQxYbVFlzKvEGvdpFMprV7oNGF0U7uikIfOeMURaHNc7ouT9lLEbNl +ErgjDKubVwc0JspJyJj75VPqwdsH7AOPk9JiuXYGLNMeO9XFc7gvsqyv3Sn6wjao6juwuOsW zfEmcp+tMuhvngIYizuDk1+fAL/Im+1SEzeFul10FEFWMcZup7KwUAaNPQCNz/hJdppaQ6ixo PpiiSxL9lTUZysdmXMRnzs/1fmDSpApjNeNrtwhJnTbd7PGZiao7T0yRsoN52jzuD3otd5br9 wH7YVkJPJhBmbzsYdFATY/lKMKvsrzyVEmkko9kEhXry1CxsWjf+CAZyHlsNU/bmMnEEmhf0c ybfxzt9b0XZjcXb3ZnBQKTDxwv09WwTjhCJ50SqP0w4By6NuW/pPLmO2DYMYSTMKeHtPHzDpy ghADZKd9POmwf6adtPdAQA/YrTnrYNhCjPKKh59P9E6R18icZ/tipMQ4GdKdNhVCTRorOaGh8 bYTHOtX1vcNlpYKrJ5bGrvLRTxOx866SHHFy2tt1mBbrsJHLNw1U4udtIZXwG5nwE7+vtaToq 07HC4TmDqKpzCLBJ0GodTSxeVU9tYNYztwAMDlSg2EDutfAgr45FyU590a2Kgej5PeDnIAL+ X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:151140 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Don't we already have something like that in Customize and/or in EWW, > where they allow the user to fill fields in a form? The use cases I have in mind don't fit there. If you for example want an interface to be able to attach multi line text notes to articles in Gnus, it makes no sense to use a Customize or EWW buffer for that. `org-capture' is another (already implemented) example: It prompts you for a new note or task using a pop-up buffer. This time, this buffer is in org mode. Magit's buffer prompting for a commit message is yet another example. In all these cases, you don't yet have a buffer that you could use for input, unlike Customize or EWW, and the minibuffer is not good for the task. Michael.