Re: emacs forms input

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:29:25 +0200 Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> 
wrote: 

LB> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu> 
wrote:
>> Thanks, that helps; but I was looking for something more: not simply
>> choosing a command from a menu, but displaying a dialog with multiple
>> fields, letting the user fill some of them, and getting the result --
>> like displaying an HTML <FORM>.

LB> I know of no such general solution, but I have tried to do something
LB> like that in "M-x search-form" in nXhtml.

Gnus has assistant.el which is very general and IMHO suitable for data
collection.  It supports all the Emacs widgets, I think.  It's not
Gnus-specific although the intent is to eventually use it to set up Gnus
interactively.

Ted