From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: HIST to read-from-minibuffer
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 19:09:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739xgta9l.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xbai632fn0ph.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Sat, 22 May 2010 21:25:14 +0100")
> I am trying to read a string with a hist variable. I want the default to
> be the first element of the hist variable and the history to start from
> the SECOND element.
>
> I can seem to get the behaviour I want with '(hist . 1) but not '(hist .
> 2). However the doc string says:
>
> "positions are counted starting from 1 at the beginning of the list"
>
> This looks contradictory to the behaviour I observed. Is this a mistake
> on my understand or the doc string? Thanks.
Sorry, I don't understand what is contradictory?
(let ((hist '("a" "b" "c")))
(read-from-minibuffer "Prompt: " nil nil nil '(hist . 2)))
M-p => "c"
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-25 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-22 20:25 HIST to read-from-minibuffer Leo
2010-05-25 16:09 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2010-05-25 16:37 ` Leo
2010-05-25 17:54 ` Juri Linkov
2010-05-25 18:20 ` Leo
2010-05-26 3:52 ` Leo
2010-05-30 18:45 ` Juri Linkov
2010-05-31 11:52 ` Leo
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