jwg1@bunny.UUCP (James W. Gish) (04/21/88)
I vaguely remember seeing something about a menu or forms package for gnuemacs some months back in this newsgroup. I would like to get a copy. Can anyone point me in the right direction ? Thanks. -- Jim Gish GTE Laboratories, Inc., Waltham, MA CSNET: jwg1@gte-labs UUCP: ..!harvard!bunny!jwg1
bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger) (04/22/88)
James W. Gish (jwg1@bunny.UUCP) writes: > I vaguely remember seeing something about a menu or forms package for > gnuemacs some months back in this newsgroup. I would like to get a > copy. Can anyone point me in the right direction ? Thanks. I think you mean template-mode. Its sources were posted on comp.sources.unix or a related newsgroup about six (?) months ago. Eager to use it for writing awk and shell scripts, I brought it up and took it for a spin. Its ideas were great and the code seemed very robust, but after a while the "fill in the blanks" approach wore thin on me. I guess the creative act of script-development doesn't lend itself to the non-creative actions of filling in a template, at least for my tastes. Filling out forms would be a much better use for it than handling coding details, if you're like me. -- bd
clindh@Stride.COM (Christer Lindh) (04/27/88)
From article <690012@hpsemc.HP.COM>, by bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger): > James W. Gish (jwg1@bunny.UUCP) writes: >> I vaguely remember seeing something about a menu or forms package for >> gnuemacs some months back in this newsgroup. > > I think you mean template-mode. > *I* think he means 'mfe.el' written by Peter Mroz (sorry, I don't know email-adress). It works excellent for building forms, editing fields etc but it may be slow on smaller machines as it does lot of processing for each character entered. -- clindh@stride.COM :: Stride Product Group, R&D :: "My howercraft is full of eels..." MicroSage Computer Systems, Inc. :: Reno, NV, (702) 322-6868 ::
jwg1@bunny.UUCP (James W. Gish) (05/02/88)
In article <777@stride.Stride.COM> clindh@Stride.COM (Christer Lindh) writes: >From article <690012@hpsemc.HP.COM>, by bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger): >> James W. Gish (jwg1@bunny.UUCP) writes: >>> I vaguely remember seeing something about a menu or forms package for >>> gnuemacs some months back in this newsgroup. >> >> I think you mean template-mode. >> > >*I* think he means 'mfe.el' written by Peter Mroz (sorry, I don't know Yup - that's the one. How can I get it ? -- Jim Gish GTE Laboratories, Inc., Waltham, MA CSNET: jwg1@gte-labs UUCP: ..!harvard!bunny!jwg1