From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33007: 27.0.50; Proposal for function to edit and return string Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:40:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20181011134041.GB2686@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <86pnwh4je8.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com> <83bm81xl84.fsf@gnu.org> <20181011063321.GD27672@protected.rcdrun.com> <87lg74zk2k.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539265148 22785 195.159.176.226 (11 Oct 2018 13:39:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:39:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: 33007@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 15:39:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAbB7-0005k7-Sm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:39:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAbDE-0002Af-HC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAbD7-0002AO-ND for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAbD4-0006B5-GS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40031) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAbD4-0006At-A1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAbD4-0000PR-4S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:41:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jean Louis Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:41:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33007 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33007-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33007.15392652531549 (code B ref 33007); Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:41:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33007) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Oct 2018 13:40:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44289 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAbCv-0000Ou-22 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:52727) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAbCs-0000Oc-UW for 33007@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from protected.rcdrun.com ([::ffff:31.223.149.38]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 06:40:43 -0700 id 00000000000E78F6.000000005BBF52DB.00003438 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1001) by protected.rcdrun.com with local id 00000000000C2288.000000005BBF52D9.00000AF5; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:40:41 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lg74zk2k.fsf@web.de> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:151112 Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 03:31:15PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Jean Louis writes: > > > Something like this below shall become read-from-buffer [...] > > I agree that such an interface would be useful for Emacs. I think it > already has been reinvented multiple times in Emacs itself. I invented > it myself. > > Some minor thoughts: The input buffer should be more controllable: modes > and keymap shouldn't be fixed. Also, it should be possible to prefill > the buffer with a string describing what the user is expected to do, and > which is ignored after the user has finished. Yes, please. With some immutable string maybe like instructions, as option. Jean