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Hi,

A feature I'm missing in tabulated-list-mode is dynamic columns, i.e. the columns and their formats are fixed, and just reordering the columns requires modifying a lot of code in different places. Have you thought about providing this functionality in bui?

Neat package. I'm thinking about building a https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/ front-end. However, I'm wondering if there is any search-filtering functionality? I saw the filter functions. Is there any hope there is real-time filter-while-you-type functionality similar to Helm? If not, is it a reasonable feature idea?

But bui specifies 24.3 as the minimal supported Emacs version.

lib/bui/bui-utils.el:484:1:Warning: the function ‘gensym’ is not known to be
    defined.

So I have this situation: I have a list of objects that have these properties, each property having a name and a value.

I want to go through said list and, upon selecting an object, open a buffer from BUI containing the properties of said object.

Relatively uniform, I could do something like:

(bui-define-interface node_properties list
  :buffer-name          "*Object Properties*"
  :format               '((name nil 30 t) (value nil 70 t))
  :sort-key             '(name)))

The issue, though, is :get-entries-function; because the BUI buffer is being triggered from the object in the list, what the entries are depends on which object is selected.

I may've missed something that might help me so I thought I'd ask if there's a way to pull this off.

I have a list interface with the following :format:

'((name           nil               52 t)
  (version        nil               24 t)
  (size           nil               10 bui-list-sort-numerically-2 :right-align t)
  (lastUnpacked   bui-list-get-time 32 bui-list-sort-numerically-3 :right-align t)
  (lastUnpackedBy nil               21 t)
  (status         nil                7 t))

The lastUnpacked date is given as seconds.

Rendering the data, via bui-list-get-time works like a charm; no issues there. But sorting the column goes to Hell. The dates are in, seemingly, a random order or another column is being used to sort things when the third column is told to be sorted because similar names in the name column end up getting bunched together.

If I replace bui-list-get-time with nil, sorting works exactly as I'd expect and the dates are in proper order (though displayed as Epoch seconds instead of being formatted to date/times).

I thought maybe that the original numbers weren't being kept and so it was trying to sort Emacs time objects and tried removing bui-list-sort-numerically-3 but that just resulted in BUI saying it wasn't able to sort the column.

The default value of bui-revert-confirm is t, and :revert-confirm? nil means "do not set the value" rather than "set it to nil".

Version 1.2.1 was tagged in 2018. There are however only 5 commits since them though.

Your package is now packaged for Debian:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bui-el

Thank you for your work!