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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	"mardani29@yahoo.es" <mardani29@yahoo.es>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names?
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:21:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0bs53yx.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54883994099841A54393D6DCF3A12@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Sure. But if multi-selection is incorporated into standard APIs, history
>> may also hold the information about selected elements, in addition to
>> minibuffer input. I do not see a reason to keep it as a completely
>> separate structure.
>
> Sorry, not clear to me.  Define "history of selected
> elements".
>
> By "selected elements" I assume you mean something
> like what we've been discussing: designating/marking
> some file names (or more generally any kind of
> completion candidates) for use as a group at some
> time, particularly at some time other than during
> the current act of completing patterns.

Not really.
In this thread, I am not discussing multi-selection in the completing
read commands that are not asking for multiple answers.
What I am interested in is extension of the UI of
`completing-read-multiple' - when Elisp code _asks_ for one or more
inputs.

I understand that icicles is doing more than this, but I am not
interested in icicles as is. Just in the ideas it introduces as they might
be used in the more conventional Emacs workflows (read-multiple in
particular)

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-17 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-07  7:22 Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names? Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-07 13:26 ` Daniel Martín
2024-07-07 15:56   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-07 16:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-07 17:18       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-07 17:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-07 17:47           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-07 17:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-07 21:24               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-07-13 13:57                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-13 18:56                   ` Drew Adams
2024-07-14 12:38                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-14 17:23                       ` Drew Adams
2024-07-15 18:56                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-15 19:44                           ` Drew Adams
2024-07-17 17:21                             ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-07-17 19:49                               ` Drew Adams
2024-07-13 13:43               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-13 13:53                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-13 14:15                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-13 14:28                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-14 12:16                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-14 13:11                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-15 18:52                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-15 19:22                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-15 19:52                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-16 10:05                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-23 11:13                                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-23 12:05                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-23 16:30                                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-23 16:35                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-23 16:40                                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-23 17:48                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-23 16:02                                     ` Yuri Khan
2024-07-23 17:35                                     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-07-16  5:09                             ` Yuri Khan
2024-07-13 14:19                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-13 14:19                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-08 12:00       ` Max Nikulin
2024-07-13 14:00         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-14  9:00           ` Max Nikulin
2024-07-14 12:33             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-15 12:12               ` Max Nikulin

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