[comp.emacs] data-entry/screen layout program

MANSFIEL@EMBL.BITNET (Niall Mansfield) (03/18/87)

Does anybody have something for (GNU) Emacs which makes it
easy to setup a formatted-screen data entry facility?

E.g. say you wanted to provide a self-explanatory procedure
for adding a new user to a Un*x system, by setting up some
sort of spec in an Emacs (Lisp?) file, and saying

        emacs -l edit-new-user

you might get a screen like

        username:       user-id no.:
        group-id no:    user's full name:
        home dir:       shell name:

and any old naive user could rattle away at it.