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A suggestion for easier editing of lists in Custom buffers

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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>, 6419 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6419: A suggestion for easier editing of lists in Custom
 buffers
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:05:36 -0300

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Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>>> Should "a previously deleted one" be "the last-deleted one"?
>>
>> Not necessarily.  It works like a stack.
>
> How is that different - LIFO, no?
> In any case, how it works needs to be made clear
> somewhere.

Yes, of course.  But in that case I think the help-echo should say
explicitly: "the last-deleted one not yet reinserted", or something like
that.

>>> If you use INS in one customize buffer after using
>>> DEL in another, or after using DEL in another part
>>> of the same buffer (but not part of the same sequence),
>>> is that last-deleted item inserted?  Or is it only the
>>> last-deleted (if any) from the same sequence?
>>
>> The latter.  This only implements moving items within the same
> sequence.
>
> So maybe make that clear somehow.

Will try.

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