"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
How does an alist widget work? Most of the time we want something
pretty specific (eg, '(repeat (cons string symbol)) for
auto-mode-alist -- I think that works). Is that supported?
The main technical advantage of the alist and plist widgets are that
they support :options (and custom-add-option).
The only example I could find is mm-uu-configure-list in oGnus.
I also think they specify the type more clearly to both the human
reader, and to hypothetical new modules that would use the
information.