From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: completing-read-multiple and read-face-name are not in Elisp manual Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:07:15 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87k5tyn3is.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182350041 12745 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 14:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 16:34:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I11Fv-0005WJ-L6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:33:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I11Fv-0008Kt-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I11FG-0007dU-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I11FE-0007cm-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I11FE-0007cj-J7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I11FE-0004sz-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I11FA-000PaQ-O8; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:33:13 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Tue\, 19 Jun 2007 15\:47\:57 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 5bcd58edb95cdacf596e852bfe0375ec X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1162 [June 20 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73430 Archived-At: >> This is an optional feature > > What is? Do you mean completing multiple face names? My question was more > general. `completing-read-multiple' is presumably not tied to face-name > completion - it too should be documented, IMO. Both are optional so far (completing multiple items in general and completing multiple face names). >> However, this feature could be documented and developed further to e.g. >> allowing selecting multiple faces from the *Completions* buffer, inserting >> them into the minibuffer separated by a comma, and calling a multi-command >> on them. > > Not sure I understand you well, but I think there is no need to insert the > selected faces in the minibuffer all at once separated by commas. When you > say "calling a multi-command on them", do you mean calling it on each of > them individually or acting on the set of them collectively? In Dired, after selecting several files, you can run a command once on all of them when the command contains `*' surrounded by whitespace, and run for each file when the command doesn't contain it. In crm, we could use different separators, e.g. to use `,' to call the action on all completion candidates, and to use `;' as a separator to call the action on each of them. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/