From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73321 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: assistants, again Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:08:48 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <8762wys1q8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bp6qowqa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zkuanh10.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287515358 4719 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2010 19:09:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:09:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21693@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 19 21:09:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8HYi-0003Ss-3c for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:09:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P8HYc-000886-7D; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P8HYa-00087n-L9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P8HYW-0003Wk-6V for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P8HYV-0006M2-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:09:03 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8HYS-0003L6-U2 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:09:00 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:09:00 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:09:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAKlBMVEW1s6SysK7CwrPS0tLE xMS6uqOoo5DS0qLIyMbOzs+qqYedkU+3rZrR0b38KR5TAAAAwklEQVQ4jWNITBMUlDBGB4bGDEg8 ZWQpBmcM1VAJHOKkSVjikrCYTL4djWCTmzElZoIlJpNgFIkSOAKLenYY4ZIwxS5h2YxLwtkGQ8IE r1F4JKxwSWDagWLUDJClLcCImgzigaMcomOioKCwoSAwNMEBKgiKSpw+NyQ5rKgoYYtLwhyfBHoy mYzLDmG8RjWR6apmXBJowNAYHB/geEEGlqCcBAx2791AsGD1KlAMWoL8tLrcfDfu+MApYYVUyBih SAAAKrfxhZoG/kQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _Room 40_: "Steinbruchel - Same" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hvmDreq3bU7UYvfYf2nqMp8upSg= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73321 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > I'll work on it. Great! > I really need you to explain how assistants work, though. Your parse, > render, and data assembly code makes sense when I read it but in > practice (writing actual .ast files) it's hard to use. Plus it's not > obvious to me how to make assisted changes permanent: do I need to > write a converter or can assistant.el customize things directly? I think you need to hook it into customize, probably, if I remember correctly. I meant to write that bit, but didn't get around to it. If the .ast file format is difficult to use, feel free to change the format to something better. I don't think this is used by anybody. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen