From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: drain Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: completing-read Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1401299088212-323117.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401299249 681 80.91.229.3 (28 May 2014 17:47:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 17:47:29 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 28 19:47:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wphwe-00036A-EQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2014 19:47:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wphwd-0004xj-Pi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WphuI-0001UN-Jo for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WphuD-0000jw-Hr for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:39296) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WphuD-0000jp-De for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.236.26] (helo=sam.nabble.com) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WphuC-0002BH-Ef for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2014 10:44:48 -0700 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97914 Archived-At: I'm curious what the numbers passed to the completing-read function are used for. Here is the example I found online: (completing-read "Complete a foo: " '(("foobar1" 1) ("barfoo" 2) ("foobaz" 3) ("foobar2" 4)) nil t "fo") This function appears to work fine without the 1, 2, 3, 4. -- View this message in context: http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/completing-read-tp323117.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.