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From: MANSFIEL@EMBL.BITNET (Niall Mansfield)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: data-entry/screen layout program
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Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 05:11:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 05:11:48 1987
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Does anybody have something for (GNU) Emacs which makes it
easy to setup a formatted-screen data entry facility?

E.g. say you wanted to provide a self-explanatory procedure
for adding a new user to a Un*x system, by setting up some
sort of spec in an Emacs (Lisp?) file, and saying

        emacs -l edit-new-user

you might get a screen like

        username:       user-id no.:
        group-id no:    user's full name:
        home dir:       shell name:

and any old naive user could rattle away at it.