From: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `read--expression' and `read-minibuffer'
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 13:02:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10888855-8ce3-648f-82ac-2b9e1409effc@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e6be928-75ae-4714-bf03-d6505954cf21@default>
>> Because it is tailored for that use case. The kind of completion
>> it provides for instance assumes the S-exp is an Elisp expression.
>
> Of course it is an Elisp expression. It does not follow that
> the Elisp expression that has been read will then be _evaluated_.
In this thread, Stefan is defining an "Elisp expression" to be precisely
an S-exp that is intended for `eval'.
> Completion can be used and useful when constructing an Elisp
> expression to be read, regardless of whether the expression
> that is read will be evaluated, or can be evaluated without
> error.
So a variant of `read--expression' could be written that does a subset
of that completion appropriate to the more general context of entering
an S-exp. It might for instance be a flag passed to `read--expression'.
This answers your original question: it's internal because we are
still discovering the use cases and desirable interface for it.
Davis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-06 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-03 18:20 `read--expression' and `read-minibuffer' Drew Adams
2016-09-04 4:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-04 5:53 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-04 6:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-04 15:39 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 2:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-06 19:02 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2016-09-06 20:29 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-07 0:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 3:01 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-07 3:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 5:54 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-07 12:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-09 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-07 13:25 ` Herring, Davis
2016-09-07 16:02 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-07 17:01 ` Davis Herring
2016-09-07 21:01 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-07 22:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-07 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 22:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-08 0:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-06 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-06 21:35 ` Drew Adams
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