From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: menu system in recent Emacs? Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 01:52:50 +0200 Message-ID: <8762cem97x.fsf@gnuvola.org> References: <87zk9to1bh.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878vhcgfwu.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjfibwhj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87havybs60.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87havybeks.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87wr4u8jgb.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87havy31k5.fsf@gmx.com> <87sjfi8dxt.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336002826 15352 80.91.229.3 (2 May 2012 23:53:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 23:53:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 03 01:53:45 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SPjMb-0003OD-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2012 01:53:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPjMa-0008Q2-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 19:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPjMX-0008Px-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 19:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPjMV-0005gQ-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 19:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp205.alice.it ([82.57.200.101]:40924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPjMU-0005dr-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 19:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ambire (79.40.16.126) by smtp205.alice.it (8.6.023.02) id 4F421F7B0838CE5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 3 May 2012 01:53:00 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SPjLm-0001cg-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2012 01:52:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87sjfi8dxt.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 02 May 2012 17:34:38 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.101 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150231 Archived-At: () Ted Zlatanov () Wed, 02 May 2012 17:34:38 -0400 Also it's hard to insert explanatory text [...]. Can that be done somehow? I don't see a way. You can include that text in the prompt, with newlines for readability. (completing-read "Here are some choices:\n- A\t- B\n- C\t- D\nChoose one: " '("A" "B" "C" "D"))