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: HIST to read-from-minibuffer Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 20:54:20 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ljb7q33m.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <8739xgta9l.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274810672 9970 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2010 18:04:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 18:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 25 20:04:31 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGyUO-0007Bp-RM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 20:04:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60476 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGyUO-0004Ug-4c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 14:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43751 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGyUI-0004Tp-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 14:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGyUG-0006sv-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 14:04:21 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3]:57340 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGyUG-0006sl-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 14:04:20 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.28.247.cable.starman.ee [82.131.28.247]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EAF3F411E; Tue, 25 May 2010 21:04:16 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: (Leo's message of "Tue, 25 May 2010 17:37:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:125261 Archived-At: >> (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/