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From: "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rewriting y-or-n-p to use read-char-choice
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:10:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=fzRiqFcan5gxXTipZYjkEnJX-X8W1gkZoVZ-u@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739mulshy.fsf@lifelogs.com>

Hi,

> Stefan Monnier asked me to look at rewriting `y-or-n-p' to use
> `read-char-choice'.  This looked easy at first but I realized it's not
> such a good idea because:
[snip]
> So I think a better way would be to write a
> `read-char-choice-from-keymap' function which can be passed
> `query-replace-map' or something else AND a prompt and a list of
> acceptable return values.

I don't know if this is at all useful, but I had implemented the
functionality that `read-char-choice' provides a couple of years ago:

http://edward.oconnor.cx/elisp/read-char-spec.el

I've signed papers, so feel free to pilfer anything useful out of there.


Ted



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10 18:50 rewriting y-or-n-p to use read-char-choice Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 19:10 ` Edward O'Connor [this message]
2011-03-10 19:46   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 22:35 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-10 22:54   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 23:48     ` Drew Adams
2011-03-11  2:05 ` Stefan Monnier

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