Questions tagged [widget]
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avoid newlines after menu-choice widget and/or after %v
I'm using menu-choice elisp widgets, and I find that a newline is inserted after each one, unlike say an editable-field widget.
I would like to place multiple menu-choice widgets side-by-side (like a ...
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Local map of xwidget-webkit-mode?
In xwidget-webkit-mode, the command M-x local-set-key RET S-<right> windmove-right RET has no effect — the key continues to be bound to xwidget-webkit-pass-command-event. Also, M-x local-unset-...
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Emacs widgets: editing problems with integer widget
If I try to set up a buffer with just one integer widget, I have a very hard time editing the field. The initial value seems stuck there and, if I try to edit it away I get a End of file during ...
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How to add choice-items to a menu-choice widget through code?
Looking up information from an Active Directory, I want to populate a form. Generally that works fine with editable-fields, since all one has to do is to add the value, which Emacs has a function for ...
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Is there a way to create a emacs shotcut that runs a specific terminal command before opening emacs?
a friend of mine recomended that I use a program called obsidian to make notes,and I quite liked the idea, but i didn't like the program. I have been searching and it seeams to me that org-roam in ...
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Prepend custom field names when inserting a multi-list widget
I am trying to resolve a related question relating to creating a simple form to input and return various fields: How to pop open a forms template to enter multiple values To that end, I defined a ...
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About input fields in a buffer
I've been perusing forms.el trying to find out how would one go about having a text input field in a buffer that can be edited, without any luck. I'm completely missing the part where the field is ...
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When compiling Emacs on RHEL8 should I better bind to GTK3 or GTK2?
I am compiling Emacs 27.1 on a RHEL8 Linux box. This RHEL system is a remote system I log in from my Windows machine using MobaXterm (Personal Edition V12.1) on the Windows machine as X server.
On ...
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Widgets: How to notify on exiting "editable-field"
This is a follow-up on Creating buttons/input fields.
I learned that forms (or rather its elements) in Emacs are called widgets and I am now experimenting on how I can get the best result for what I ...
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How to use unicode for the checkbox in customize buffers (**not** in org mode)?
I'm trying to modify the appearance of customize buffers. I managed to modify the button but I did not find how to change the appearance of the checkbox nor the dropdown indicator (▽). Ideally I would ...
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A custom type specification like “repeat,” but when there’s only one item, it’s inline
So, I’m trying to add Customize support to packages that use a lot of plists, and where the value of pretty much any option can be either a single item or a list. I could have every single plist ...
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In a buffer with widgets how can I find out what function is called on a (link) widget
In a buffer with widgets how can I find out what functions widgets call?
Let's say I position the cursor on a widget, I execute M-x widget-browse-at and know now that the widget is of class "link".
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How to translate between custom choice type and widget items?
I have a custom variable
(defcustom myvar ....
:type '(choice (const :tag "foo" 1) ...))
and I need to map it to
(widget-create ...
'(item :tag "foo" :value 1)
...)
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Emacs Widget Library
Using this widget:
(widget-create 'editable-field :size 4 :format "text1 %v text2")
(widget-setup)
I get the following output (where the underscores appear as a fillable grey area)
text1 ____ text2
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Customize-like form
I'd like to create a form, like the one displayed by customize, in order to ask to the user some information. The form should let me provide a description, a default value, and eventually display a ...
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Define widget key bindings
The following code:
defines a major mode my-mode where C-d binding is redefined;
opens a my-mode buffer inserting an editable-field widget.
(require 'widget)
(require 'wid-edit)
;; Define ...
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'editable-field' widget is not playing nice with `widget-value-set'
When I evaluate the following form,
(defun magithub-issue-form ()
(interactive)
(with-current-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*magithub issue*")
(switch-to-buffer-other-window (current-buffer))
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How can I stop newlines from being entered in an editable-field widget?
I have the following widget:
(widget-create 'editable-field :size 76 :format "Title: %v")
However, when I create this widget and edit its value, I can use C-j to insert new lines.
How can I ...
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Emacs link widget gives the error "gui-get-primary-selection: No selection is available"
I am reading the The Emacs Widget Library.
The library describes the widget properties in general and not per widget. So I'd like some more insights about the link widget properties and use.
:notify ...
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Get widget at point
For example, I inserted many link widgets like this:
(widget-create `(link :tag "Test link"
:button-prefix ""
:button-suffix ""
:...
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How does one define a widget of type editable-list with validation?
I create my widget with the following code:
(widget-create 'editable-list
:entry-format "%i %d %v"
:value '("")
'(editable-field
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Are there any libraries for input fields in Emacs?
Quite a few Emacs modes use (something like) forms: the customization interface is one of them, the Message mode (read: its header part) is another one; there are more of them, unfortunately not ...
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Choosing files and directories from widgets
I'm looking for the most convenient way to set up a Customize options page to enter a set of directories and then select one of those directories and one file in the selected directory (if possible, ...
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elisp widgets: Modifying an editable-field's value real time when changing another one
This is cross-post from Stack Overflow
I have a simple widget setup:
(setq gobgen-widget-name
(widget-create 'editable-field
:size 25
:format "Name: ...
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