Re: Emacs setup assistants

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: 20 May 2004 22:57:08 +0200
> 
> But those text fragments would have to appear between the variables
> in question.  And explanatory texts are more effective if you can
> highlight stuff, include cross references to the manual and so on.

Agreed.

But I think that Customize and Emacs widgets already provide a
significant portion of the required functionality to do that.

> If this language also makes it possible to create widgets and active
> code, that would be an advantage.  We would probably want to
> preprocess this super-Texinfo before turning it into a printed or
> HTML version: it would be nice if an Emacs-internal makeinfo could
> just show the the available menus and menu structure by calling them
> by name and keymap, for example.

I fear that extending Texinfo along these lines would be much more
difficult than extending Customzie and/or widget.