From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 21:20:53 -0700 Message-ID: <87zgy6ixcq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <9c9af088-580f-9fb1-4d79-237a74ce605c@inventati.org> <874kgkxxs0.fsf@posteo.net> <3ec7e2e58a100426a22e@heytings.org> <87a6qakrpy.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87eefkuez6.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20343"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:DOqNYZCii8fs0EnStL+qDGzkx+k= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 10 06:21:34 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lV57m-0005DH-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 06:21:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54428 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lV57l-0004eh-KH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:21:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lV57H-0004Ci-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:49686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lV57F-0000r9-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lV57C-0004eF-Tk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 06:20:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:267767 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> We've all written this a million times: >> >> (let* ((choices (mapcar (lambda (elt) >> (cons (make-string-from-thing elt) >> elt)) >> my-list-of-things)) >> (choice (completing-read "Choose: " >> choices))) >> (cdr (assoc-string choice choices))) > > Sorry, I didn't follow the whole thread (too long), here some Helm > features you may not be aware of: > > > (helm-comp-read "test: " '(("un" . 1) ("deux" . 2) ("trois" . 3))) > => 1 > (helm-comp-read "test: " '(("un" . 1) ("deux" . 2) ("trois" . 3)) :alistp nil) > => "un" > (helm-comp-read "test: " '(("un" . 1) ("deux" . 2) ("trois" . 3)) :marked-candidates t) > => (1) > (helm-comp-read "test: " '(("un" . 1) ("deux" . 2) ("trois" . 3)) > :marked-candidates t :alistp nil) > => ("un") > > Hope that helps. Thanks! I think this is mostly about improvements/additions to vanilla Emacs, though...