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bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:12:46 +0200 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:34:17 +0200
>
> >> +(defcustom Buffer-menu-group-by nil
> >> + "If non-nil, buffers are grouped by function."
> >> + :type 'function
> >> + :group 'Buffer-menu
> >> + :version "30.1")
> >
> > Please consider letting users choose a symbol, not a function. Each
> > symbol can be mapped to a function, but having a user option whose
> > values are functions makes it harder for users to customize the
> > option.
>
> Ok, now the type is changed to 'symbol'. Here is the complete patch:
Thanks, but I wonder if we can be a tad more user-friendly? The user
option exists, and it can accept simple enough data structures for
customizations, but the default is nil, and there's no example or
pre-cooked list of ready-to-use values anywhere in sight, not even in
the doc string. Users will have to work hard to produce a grouping of
their liking. E.g., suppose I want to group buffers by mode -- how
would I go about it? Or what about grouping buffers by their leading
directories -- how can that be done? Etc. etc. -- this could be a
very powerful feature, but we should make its use easier. And, after
reading the documentation of tabulated-list-groups and that of
tabulated-list-entries several times, I have no idea how to specify
simple groupings such as those described above. Which makes examples
or pre-cooked values even more important, IMO.
What I had in mind when I said "choose a symbol" was that a symbol
will stand for a pre-cooked grouping. For example, 'mode would cause
buffers grouped by major-mode, 'directory will group by leading
directories, 'alphabet will group by the first letter of the name,
etc. What this patch provides is quite a far cry from that.
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Juri Linkov, 2024/02/21
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Juri Linkov, 2024/02/22
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/22
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Juri Linkov, 2024/02/22
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/22
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Juri Linkov, 2024/02/23
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/23
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Juri Linkov, 2024/02/24
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/24
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/24
- bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode, Adam Porter, 2024/02/25