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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ido-completing-read and substrings of choices
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:52:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nfpsze4.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m18v512cep.fsf@gmail.com

Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2013-04-02 19:49 +0800, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> It seems that it is not possible to input a string that is a substring
>> of some candidate, even if require-match is nil:
>>
>> (ido-completing-read "Choose: " '("abc" "xyz") nil nil)
>>
>> How could the user input "ab" on the command above?
>
> C-j

Thanks Leo. Nico already answered this.

The documentation on ido.el is centered around selecting files and
buffers. However, ido-mode is so convenient that more and more people
are using ido-completing-read as a replacement for completing-read on
lots of contexts. IMHO ido-completing-read deserves move visibility on
the documentation at the top of ido.el or, better, explain the general
goal of ido-mode starting from ido-completing-read and present file and
buffer selection as specific applications.

Thanks again.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-02 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-02 11:49 ido-completing-read and substrings of choices Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02 11:54 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-04-02 12:22   ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02 15:13 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-02 15:52   ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2013-04-02 16:47     ` Leo Liu
2013-04-03 13:22     ` Stefan Monnier

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