From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: read-command, read-variable, read-buffer implemented in C
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:53:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmw6sqeob.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fxw9nvz.fsf@wanadoo.es> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2014 05:25:52 +0100")
> I guess it is an historical artifact due to performance concerns, but
> now it doesn't make much sense anymore, right?
Indeed.
> Some extensions need to jump through hoops because of this. For using
> Ido (almost) everywhere it would be enough to advise `completing-read',
> which is what those functions end using, but as advices are not
> effective for functions defined in C when they are called from other C
> functions, extensions such as ido-hacks are forced to advise the
> functions that call read-*, which is quite a hassle.
We introduced completing-read-function for that.
Stefan
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2014-12-13 4:25 read-command, read-variable, read-buffer implemented in C Óscar Fuentes
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