brennan@rtp.dg.com (Dave Brennan) (12/16/90)
I'm constantly reminded by the that people I constantly remind to use Emacs
that Emacs needs to be more user friendly. (*sarcasam* Like vi is!) One
idea which came to me recently (in a vision) was to have the set-variable
function be a little smarter about the variables it is sets. I finally got
around to writing the Elisp tonight and am looking for volunteers to test
what I currently have (and improvements as they happen) before I unleash it
on the world.
Let me know if you're interested.
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Research Triangle Park, NC |// Phone: (919) 248-6330brennan@rtp.dg.com (Dave Brennan) (12/17/90)
Since my previous post was, uh, a tad bit vague, here's some more info:
Variables can be assigned a get-value function or a type (which have
get-value functions) which set-variable will call to get the new value of
the variable instead of just using eval-minibuffer. (Which is what the
default set-variable uses.)
So if a variable is supposed to contain a filename, it can be assigned the
filename type and a get filename function can be assigned to the filename
type. This is supposed to make set-variable better because the
get-value functions make it easier to input the new value (and might also
make sure the value is valid).
I would have posted it, but I still want to make improvements, and I want
to get the bugs out first.
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