Re: widget-choice-action

2005-08-03 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Ok, I think the problem is that the original code try to extract the value of the choosen widget before it has been instantiated in the buffer. When a widget is instantiated, lots of stuff (mostly regarding quoting) can happen which can change its intrinsic value. The reason the the choosen value

Re: Bad value to a defcustom makes choices unavailable

2005-08-03 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, you can use that, but the list of choices does not > appear until next time you run customize. Is not that quite a bit > confusing? Are you saying that it would be hard to redraw the widget in > those cases? No, doing that would be a good idea

Re: Bad value to a defcustom makes choices unavailable

2005-08-02 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Let us say that someone writes a defcustom in a package he distributes. > Later she/he for some reason changes the list of choices. If a user has > saved a value through custom that now no longer exists he can not > correct it through custom. He ca

Re: widget-choice-action

2005-08-02 Thread Per Abrahamsen
It was RMS who wrote code, but since I'm CC'ed, I'll contribute with my recollection of it (which may be entirely wrong). Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This seems very counterintuitive and I had to struggle > with this in the new indicate-buffer-boundaries defcustom, although I > fi

Re: More bugs in Custom themes

2005-07-25 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for the delay in replying to this. > >Could you please look at the code and see if the design is clear >to you? > > I have not had the time to study things in detail, but the design is > certainly clearer than what it used to be. Very non-

Re: SPC in custom-mode

2005-07-08 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Per Abrahamsen wrote: > Thanks, but there are no buttons to push in Info? There are plenty. All the cross references and menu buttons. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@

Re: SPC in custom-mode

2005-07-07 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SPC in custom buffers currently always scrolls the buffer. I do not > think this is the expected behaviour by most users. > > A common use of SPC (web browsers, w32 programs) is to "push the button" > when keyboard focus is on the button. I think tha

Re: custom-declare-variable

2005-07-05 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Would it be possible to undo the patch that integrated custom themes into Emacs cvs? It might be easier to redo theme support from scratch, than make the current code work... I mean, if nobody really understand the ideas behind the design of custom themes, it is unlikely that stepwise refinement

Re: Custom themes

2005-06-30 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not use XEmacs and I do not know whether the XEmacs version is > actually in active use and works according to some consistent > philosophy. I do not know how important compatibility with XEmacs in > the Emacs Custom Themes implementation. If you

Re: Custom themes

2005-06-27 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess Per may know some of the details. Nope. Jan Vroonhof wrote the code for XEmacs. I once tried to integrate it into Emacs, but gave up. I don't believe I was involved when Dave Love and Alex Schroeder actually went ahead and did integrate it.

Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.

2005-03-03 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone else agree that this option should be in the Options menu? Yes, please. A google search on "emacs turn off blinking cursor (without the quotes) gives around 1 hits. That is 10 times more than a similar search with "blinking cursor

Re: `face' widget type

2005-02-28 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have time to find out. > > Will you have time in the future? Things I don't do right away tend not to be done at all, or many years later. > Can you tell us some advice? > I think nobody but you really understands this code.] My advice

Re: `face' widget type

2005-02-27 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It works except for one thing: when I set a different face name, > the sample does not update. How can I make it update? I don't have time to find out. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org ht

Re: Suggested doc change for cus-edit.el

2005-02-15 Thread Per Abrahamsen
Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or does it mean that there is no defcustom? Yes. > I have the impression > that Custom completely _ignores_ variables without defcustom. To try > I put: > > '(aha "oho") > > in my `custom-set-variables' form and Custom seems to completely ignore it

Re: How to browse widget (and other similar things)

2005-02-11 Thread Per Abrahamsen
"Lennart Borgman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have found it difficult and time consuming to browse the code in cus*.el > and wid*.el. The code is surely complicated (at least I think it is) so it > is no surprise. However I wonder if I am missing something. Is there an easy > way to find out w