From: "Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)" <nicolas.rougier@inria.fr>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELPA: New package: minibuffer-header
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 10:12:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1zgggtqm9.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yu7bQhI6IqKMxtL5@protected.localdomain>
Jean Louis [2022-08-07 at 00:21] wrote:
> Because such functions as `read-from-string' directly use
> minibuffer. I have extensive use of such functions in my work
> and
> other people use it as well. Heaving a header in minibuffer
> would help
> my workers understand better what is meant with the input.
I think I'm missing a point here. Here is the
signature/documentation I get from Emacs 28.2:
> read-from-string is a function defined in C source code.
>
> Signature
> (read-from-string STRING &optional START END)
>
> Documentation
> Read one Lisp expression which is represented as text by STRING.
While I understand your arguments for other minibuffer related
function, I don't understand how this one makes use of minibuffer.
Nicolas
--
Nicolas P. Rougier —— Research Director
Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Bordeaux —— www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-07 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-06 15:59 ELPA: New package: minibuffer-header Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2022-08-06 16:51 ` Jean Louis
2022-08-06 19:20 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2022-08-06 21:21 ` Jean Louis
2022-08-07 8:12 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria) [this message]
2022-08-07 14:15 ` Jean Louis
2022-08-07 15:55 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2022-08-08 5:54 ` Jean Louis
2022-08-08 21:02 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2022-08-06 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-07 8:10 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
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