[climacs-devel] Re: a patch for climacs (mainly regarding COMPLETABLY-PATHNAME) + a gimmick

[Robert Strandh]

John Q Splittist writes:
 > I was slowly reworking the giant FORMAT so that it could be split up
 > into various functions. In particular, I was about to:
 > 
 > (a) have the syntax name given by a call to the syntax (ie. a method
 > specialised on the syntax and buffer, so, eg. lisp-syntax could add the
 > package like slime does); and
 > 
 > (b) have the buffer name presented _as_a_buffer_, so we could have
 > interesting and useful things done when one clicked on it.

Both sound like good ideas to me. 

 > Other things in the info-pane (it would be nice to abolish all uses of
 > the word 'mode' from climacs) could also usefully be presented for
 > clicking (toggling modified status, read only status, auto-fill,
 > overwrite...).

Definitely.  Personally, I have only begun to realize the potential of
presentation types in Climacs. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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