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

[John Q Splittist]

Robert Strandh wrote:
> Max-Gerd Retzlaff writes: 
>  > While we are at PRESENTing pathames: It would nice if in the
>  > climacs-info-pane (aka modeline) the name of the buffer would be
>  > presented via something like:
>  > 
>  > (let ((name (name buffer))
>  >       (filepath (filepath buffer)))
>  >   (if filepath
>  >       (with-output-as-presentation (pane filepath 'pathname)
>  >         (princ name pane))
>  >       (princ name pane)))
>  > 
>  > and not printed in this huge FORMAT of CLIMACS-GUI::DISPLAY-INFO.
> 
> yes, that would be an improvement.  If you have time for that, please
> go ahead.

I was slowly reworking the giant FORMAT so that it could be split up
into various functions. In particular, I was about to:

(a) have the syntax name given by a call to the syntax (ie. a method
specialised on the syntax and buffer, so, eg. lisp-syntax could add the
package like slime does); and

(b) have the buffer name presented _as_a_buffer_, so we could have
interesting and useful things done when one clicked on it.

Other things in the info-pane (it would be nice to abolish all uses of
the word 'mode' from climacs) could also usefully be presented for
clicking (toggling modified status, read only status, auto-fill,
overwrite...).

Have you (MGR) given thought to how your file-selector could become a
Dired application? Or, more modestly, a Bufed for climacs?

JQS