From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to read an integer from the minibuffer Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 07:27:33 +0100 Message-ID: <871r3ndx62.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87ee7nqomk.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29775"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:X5Dd09ZAzwFlDrBxFb78WWBalFU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 07:29:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ml3aB-0007Ya-Cb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 07:29:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33522 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ml3aA-00044c-Di for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 01:29:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ml3Yr-00044T-4y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 01:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:59158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ml3Yp-00070j-7w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 01:27:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ml3Yl-0005gF-1i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 07:27:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134474 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > I'd like to read an integer (or something else e.g. > matching a regex) from a minibuffer. Basically, I'm after > a version of `read-string', but either allowing only some > characters, or accepting only input matching some regex > (possibly both). Hm ... interesting (require 'cl-lib) (let ((n)) (cl-loop until (progn (setq n (read-number "integer: " 1)) (integerp n) )) n) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal