From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Read-string with pointer at start of initial value Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:43:31 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86inbogp98.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517010248 19348 195.159.176.226 (26 Jan 2018 23:44:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:44:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 27 00:44:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1efDeZ-0002cQ-0k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:43:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efDgZ-0005Hq-Hz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:45:31 -0500 X-Received: by 10.28.160.20 with SMTP id j20mr1836979wme.29.1517010214748; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:43:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!j65no2571750wmj.0!news-out.google.com!n14ni12178wmi.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:+nOxboZF9SSWuZrCbXzZm3YgDso= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221737 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115854 Archived-At: Whitfield Diffie wrote: > I want to call read-string with the pointer > at the start of the initial value so that > I can delete it and type something else if it > is not right. Try (read-string "enter a string: " "suggestion") Here, you can hit M-DEL for `backward-kill-word' to delete "suggestion" just as fast as you would if point was at the first letter (that'd instead be M-d for `kill-word'). -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573