From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs setup assistants Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 13:01:29 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: xemacs-beta-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: References: <87zn847n6a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <1438-Thu20May2004203119+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <6654-Fri21May2004195758+0300-eliz@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085229532 11409 80.91.224.253 (22 May 2004 12:38:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 12:38:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: xemacs-beta-admin@xemacs.org Sat May 22 14:38:45 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRVm1-00027r-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 14:38:45 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([199.184.165.135]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRVm1-0007Gm-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 14:38:45 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id i4MCYCs14893; Sat, 22 May 2004 08:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) id i4MCXCA14422 for xemacs-beta-mailman@xemacs.org; Sat, 22 May 2004 08:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) id i4MCXAs14395 for turnbull@tux.org; Sat, 22 May 2004 08:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from syl.extundo.com (syl.extundo.com [212.32.189.101]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id i4MCX9s14386 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 08:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by syl.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4MApJ6B007456 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 12:51:19 +0200 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRUG1-0000Nu-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 13:01:41 +0200 Original-Received: from sheridan.dina.kvl.dk ([130.225.40.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 13:01:37 +0200 Original-Received: from abraham by sheridan.dina.kvl.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 13:01:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org Original-To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sheridan.dina.kvl.dk X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+tM1GnYHIhX1+JmusW9tS5PMrSM= X-XEmacs-List: beta Errors-To: xemacs-beta-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: XEmacs Beta Testers List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:14789 gmane.emacs.devel:23829 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23829 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > But I think that Customize and Emacs widgets already provide a > significant portion of the required functionality to do that. I have always imagined saints implemented on top of widget.el + some of the customize support functions. This would also be true if the specification language resembled Texinfo. user interface: Something resembling Wizards in MS Windows saints programmer interface: Something resembling Texinfo implementation: Builds on widget.el and low level customize functions