From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>, "'Michael Olson'" <mwolson@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [gmane.emacs.help] Info-mode and ido
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:12:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004101c892dd$18b01600$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tzinn762.fsf@jurta.org>
> > It would be best if a new customizable option called
> > `Info-completing-read-function' were defined, with
> > 'completing-read as its default value. Then the code
> > could just do:
> >
> > (funcall Info-completing-read-function ...)
> >
> > I do this in all of the Emacs Lisp code I touch which uses
> > completing-read.
>
> I think it would be better to create a new `completing-read-function'
> variable like already existing `read-file-name-function' and
> `read-buffer-function'.
Yes, that is what I proposed in thread "proposal - minibuffer completion
functions". One significant advantage is that all code that calls
`completing-read' while the binding is in effect can then take advantage of the
custom reading behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-31 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 3:26 [gmane.emacs.help] Info-mode and ido William Xu
2008-03-30 19:42 ` Michael Olson
2008-03-30 23:06 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-31 3:12 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-04-03 22:56 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-30 23:22 ` William Xu
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