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outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 69305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69305: outline-minor-mode for tabulated-list-mode
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:25:10 +0200

>> >> Sorry, I don't understand what is unclear here:
>> >>
>> >>   If the value is a list, each list element corresponds to one group, and
>> >>   should have the form @w{@code{(@var{group-name} @var{entries})}}, where
>> >>   @var{group-name} is a string inserted before all group entries, and
>> >>   @var{entries} have the same format as @code{tabulated-list-entries}
>> >>   (see above).
>> >>
>> >> Basically this says that the format is (group-name entries) where
>> >> entries are described in tabulated-list-entries as having the format
>> >> (id contents).  There is no need to duplicate the description of entries.
>> >
>> > Maybe I'm missing something here.  To put it more concretely, can you
>> > show a value of tabulated-list-groups that will cause the buffers in
>> > buffer list grouped by major mode using the above form?
>>
>> Data structure for `tabulated-list-groups' is a list of elements,
>> each element should of the form
>>
>>   (GROUP-NAME (ID . CONTENTS) (ID . CONTENTS) ...)
>>
>> where GROUP-NAME is the name of the group, ID is a Lisp object that
>> identifies the entry and CONTENTS is a vector with the same number of
>> elements as `tabulated-list-format'.  When buffers grouped by major mode:
>>
>>   (("* Lisp Interaction" (#<buffer *scratch*> ["." " " "*" #("*scratch*" 0 9 ...) "225" "Lisp Interaction" ""]) ...))
>
> This is the value that the user is supposed to supply for the
> defcustom?  That is, the user must specify all the buffers explicitly?
> What happens when there's one more buffer in some mode? does the user
> have then to modify the value of the defcustom?

This describes the internal data structure, not a defcustom.

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