bug#33007: 27.0.50; Proposal for function to edit and return string

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: bugs@gnu.support,  33007@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:20:47 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Don't we already have something like that in Customize and/or in EWW,
> > where they allow the user to fill fields in a form?
> 
> The use cases I have in mind don't fit there.  If you for example want
> an interface to be able to attach multi line text notes to articles in
> Gnus, it makes no sense to use a Customize or EWW buffer for that.

I meant the infrastructure they use.  Customize uses widgets, AFAIR.