Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> writes:
> Greg Minshall <minsh...@umich.edu> writes: > >> wasn't there also some talk a while back about whatever form'ish >> technology "magit" uses? my sense was it provides something similar to >> Emacs forms. > > To clarify, I am not aware about Emacs forms (unless you refer to > widgets used in customize interface). Magit uses transient which is one > of the possible completion interfaces in Emacs. > Yes, Emacs Forms is part of Emacs and provides an interface for collecting data - either it is based on Emacs widgets or something very similar. Very much like old 'form' data entry interfaces we use to see on terminals in the 80s. A bit like ncurses with a little 'window' decoration. Transient on the other hand is a UI library for getting user input where the options are a little too complex/large for the more common input methods - for example, it could be a good candidate for the export 'menu'. which I find can be very frustrating on a smaller screen when you have lots of defined export back-ends.
