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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "John J Foerch" <jjfoerch@earthlink.net>, <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: completing-read
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:46:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICIECDDLAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ejomccmh.fsf@earthlink.net>

> The following code exhibits a behavior of completing-read that I
> would call a bug.  Or am I missing something?
>
> (let ((table '((foo . "you selected foo")
>                (foobar . "you selected foobar"))))
>   (completing-read "Symbol: " table nil 'require-match))
>
> The unexpected behavior is that it is impossible to select `foo'.

You need to use strings, not symbols, if you use an ALIST second argument to
`completing-read':

(let ((table '(("foo" . "you selected foo")
               ("foobar" . "you selected foobar"))))
  (completing-read "Symbol: " table nil 'require-match))

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-19 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-19 16:53 completing-read John J Foerch
2007-02-19 17:46 ` Drew Adams [this message]

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