From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Michael Olson' <mwolson@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [gmane.emacs.help] Info-mode and ido
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:56:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prt6egwb.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004101c892dd$18b01600$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:12:47 -0700")
>> > It would be best if a new customizable option called
>> > `Info-completing-read-function' were defined, with
>> > 'completing-read as its default value. Then the code
>> > could just do:
>> >
>> > (funcall Info-completing-read-function ...)
>> >
>> > I do this in all of the Emacs Lisp code I touch which uses
>> > completing-read.
>>
>> I think it would be better to create a new `completing-read-function'
>> variable like already existing `read-file-name-function' and
>> `read-buffer-function'.
>
> Yes, that is what I proposed in thread "proposal - minibuffer completion
> functions". One significant advantage is that all code that calls
> `completing-read' while the binding is in effect can then take advantage of the
> custom reading behavior.
This change should be accompanied with a new function
ido-completing-read since the initial request was to use
ido style completion in Info-mode.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-03 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 3:26 [gmane.emacs.help] Info-mode and ido William Xu
2008-03-30 19:42 ` Michael Olson
2008-03-30 23:06 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-31 3:12 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-03 22:56 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-03-30 23:22 ` William Xu
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