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Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist |
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Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:49:09 -0400 |
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:07:07 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
SM> Currently it's
SM>
SM> (push '("not" . ?√) prettify-symbols-alist)
SM>
SM> and hopefully we can keep something similar. This said, the intention
SM> of having two sets is that adding a new element should be unusual: the
SM> extended set should cover most things that someone might like.
>> What about the distinction between global and local (per mode, per
>> filename, etc.) prettifications?
SM> Not sure what you mean.
>From code, you can set the prettify alist per mode or per filename.
I was asking if we want to support that in the customization UI. Based
on the rest of the message, it's a clear "no."
SM> Right. I assume here that it's sufficient to allow global inhibition
SM> from Custom. If you want it more fine grained, you'll need to learn to
SM> use add-hook and setq-local.
OK, that's reasonable.
>> But defcustoms (and the underlying widgets) don't allow dynamically
>> sourced choices, do they? So the user has to copy and paste the
>> special symbol? (I looked in the widget library for dynamic choice
>> lists just this morning for the gnus-cloud stuff, where it would be
>> nice to offer a dynamic list of all the possible IMAP server as cloud
>> hosts. I couldn't find a way. Maybe I missed something.)
SM> There's currently no widget that does that, indeed. The closest is the
SM> support for completion. AFAIK there's no deep technical reason why this
SM> is the case and I'd welcome someone adding a `dynamic-choice` type.
SM> There are already various places where we could use such a thing.
OK. I'll start a separate thread.
Thanks
Ted
- RE: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist, (continued)
- Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist, Stefan Monnier, 2016/07/15
- Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/15
- Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist, Stefan Monnier, 2016/07/15
- Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/15
- Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist, Stefan Monnier, 2016/07/17
- Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/18
- Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist, Stefan Monnier, 2016/07/18
- Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/15