From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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Subject: RE: [External] : Continue cycling from a particular element in collection
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:41:51 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023 at 4:04 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > I am using 'completing-read' with INITIAL-INPUT to prefill the minibuffer
> > with the first entry "alpha". Hew can I then start at index k from collection
> > as the next entry.
>
>
> There is NO "next entry". INITIAL-INPUT is simply a string that gets inserted in the minibuffer. It need not correspond to any candidate provided by argument COLLECTION, meaning that it need not correspond to any completion.
>
> `completing-read' can be LAX, meaning that, if REQUIRE-MATCH is nil or absent then it accepts any text you input - it need not be a completion candidate.
Ok, but can I ask completing-read to start from a different point in collection, rather than from the beginning ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-22 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-22 7:39 Continue cycling from a particular element in collection Heime
2023-08-22 16:04 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-08-22 20:41 ` Heime [this message]
2023-08-22 21:04 ` Drew Adams
2023-08-22 21:11 ` Heime
2023-08-22 21:21 ` Heime
2023-08-22 21:27 ` Drew Adams
2023-08-22 21:45 ` Heime
2023-08-22 21:23 ` Drew Adams
2023-08-22 21:20 ` Drew Adams
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