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

[John Q Splittist]

Max-Gerd Retzlaff wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:46:37PM +0100, John Q Splittist wrote:
> 
>>Have you (MGR) given thought to how your file-selector could become a
>>Dired application? Or, more modestly, a Bufed for climacs?
> 
> What is Bufed?

The buffer editor: C-x C-b in Gnu Emacs.

> But no, I want the File Selector to be a general
> gadget of McCLIM to ACCEPT PATHNAMES for the appropriate VIEW.

Well, yes. But you could use your experience to (a) produce a general
file-manager application (perhaps using ESA); and/or (b) parameterise
the file-selector so it could become a generalised thing-selector, such
as buffers.

> I don't think that such a thing should be included into Climacs.

Neither do I.

> But they should
> probably be implemented as general CLIM applications/gadgets/whatevers.

Agreed.

JQS