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From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: CUSTOMIZE: Re: how to turn on showing end of file?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:17:09 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hau73l$lui$1@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6691.1252971966.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

In article <mailman.6691.1252971966.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
>PD> I'd simply use the customise interface! Writing Elisp code...
>Sorry, for me I hate the customise interface, and can only deal with
>(setq ...) stuff.
>
>

I myself have never been able to profitably use the
customize interface.

MY problem is that, as with many menu-driven gui-interfaces (eg
   main --> syntax --> foo-words --> regexp-search-for-special-word--FOO ),

is that I have no idea how to find anything, no idea of where to 
even look for something.

What would be *really* nice would be a command that, starting
at whatever customize-node you're corrently at, would draw (indented text)
the entire "subtree" of it, all the way down to the leaf items.

AND really nice if also could output a .pdf-file of it -- and
if it turned out that same leaf item occurred under several
subtrees, so the tree became a directed graph, then via
some nifty-clever graph-drawing algorithm (such as at
Brown univ's site devoted to them), something we
could browse over via mouse, zoom, etc, even print out,
scotch-tape pages together, and hang on wall.

Plus the probably impossible: when new items added, some
kind of (graphic?) diff?

Otherwise, for me it's *info* and M-x Occur on the index,
that kind of thing.


PLEASE -- SOMEONE make customize easier to find things in!

Thanks!

David





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-14 20:19 how to turn on showing end of file? jidanni
2009-09-14 21:03 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-09-14 21:10   ` jidanni
2009-09-14 21:17     ` Andreas Politz
2009-09-14 21:22   ` jidanni
2009-09-14 21:25   ` jidanni
2009-09-14 21:30   ` jidanni
2009-09-14 21:41   ` jidanni
2009-09-14 23:37     ` Peter Dyballa
2009-09-14 23:45       ` jidanni
     [not found]       ` <mailman.6691.1252971966.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-12  3:17         ` David Combs [this message]
2009-10-13  7:08           ` CUSTOMIZE: " Tim X
2009-11-12  2:47             ` David Combs
2009-09-15  3:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6697.1252984271.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-15  7:54       ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-09-16  5:15         ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]         ` <mailman.6770.1253080347.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-16 14:18           ` Sébastien Vauban

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