Re: Is there way to dynamically create explicit buttons for non-file buffers?

[Robert Weiner]

Hi Jean:

I see what you are going for here.  Generally, explicit button are meant to be persistent so they must be attached to a file.  However, we have added capabilities that allow them to be part of an email or news message where the button data is stored in a hidden part of the message itself.  So someone would have to adapt those features to your use case.  I think hmail.el and hgnus.el have the top-level of this code.

Bob

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:09 AM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

I would like to dynamically create Hyperbole explicit buttons for
buffers that I would be opening programmatically.

Please let me know if such feature is possible.

Buffer would not be connected to a file on file disk, it would be
taken out of the database.

You could imagine a profile of a person:

- picture would be displayed in the profile

- explicit buttons would be created for various features that contain
  Emacs Lisp functions with dynamically created IDs as arguments, for
  example, if I wish to see the list of family members, there could be
  <(Family)> button, or <(Send SMS to John)> or <(see skills)> that
  would show me his skills or similar.

In other words, can explicit buttons be connected to non-file buffers?

Jean

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