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 20:54:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljb7q33m.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xbaizkzoj5t6.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Tue, 25 May 2010 17:37:41 +0100")
>> (let ((hist '("a" "b" "c")))
>> (read-from-minibuffer "Prompt: " nil nil nil '(hist . 2)))
>>
>> M-p => "c"
>
> I think I don't understand this sentence:
>
> "Positions are counted starting from 1 at the beginning of the list."
>
> I thought HIST is a 1-based list, but it is still 0-based. Could you
> make the doc-string a bit clearer? Thanks.
It is 1-based.
> For example, 0 works just fine:
>
> (let ((hist '("a" "b" "c")))
> (read-from-minibuffer "Prompt: " nil nil nil '(hist . 0)))
>
> M-p => "a"
"a" is the 1st element of HIST. M-p moves to the 1st history element here.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-25 17:54 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
2010-05-25 16:37 ` Leo
2010-05-25 17:54 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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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