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))
prev parent 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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