From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fabian Braennstroem Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: use new custom group to adjust ascii files Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:24:04 +0200 Organization: www.braennstroem.de Message-ID: References: Reply-To: f.braennstroem@gmx.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216183322 5114 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2008 04:42:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:42:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 16 06:42:49 2008 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 4.50) id 1KIyqn-0005w5-2O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:42:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34958 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIypu-0006Xd-Nv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:41:54 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.k-dsl.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.stw-bonn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de!news.fernuni-hagen.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: f051097044.adsl.alicedsl.de Original-X-Trace: tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de 1216178630 3724 78.51.97.44 (16 Jul 2008 03:23:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@fernuni-hagen.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:23:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160271 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:55620 Archived-At: * Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > Fabian Braennstroem wrote: >> Hi Lennart, >> >> * Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >>> Fabian Braennstroem wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I wonder, if emacs' customize group buffer 'mode' can be >>>> used as a simple gui to adjust some ascii files!? >>>> I.e. the ascii files are used for configuration of a >>>> different external program. Would be nice, if anyone has >>>> a suggestion! >>>> Thanks! >>> Hi Fabian >>> >>> You probably want to look at Emacs widgets. In Emacs 22 or later do >>> >>> C-h i >>> >>> and then search for "widget". >> >> Thanks for the hint! Looks nice, though I did not understand >> howto get the right x11 feeling into it... I'll try it out >> in the next days. > > > Emacs widgets looks like what you see in Custom buffers. However the > internal API for widgets are such that they can be replaced by for > example xwidgets or something similar if someone some day finds the time > to do it. Thanks for the info! Greetings! Fabian