From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to write (interactive) with user-selection from predefined enumeration? (was Re: (interactive "rP") valid?)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 20:46:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo7vc580.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 061d4281-1056-4df6-993d-9c4a845bbe50@default
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> `Using Interactive' explains how to code such a list. As one example,
> you can use `completing-read' to read a user choice among any kind of
> completion candidates (not just names of functions, buffers, commands,
> directories, files, options, and coding systems).
Ok, thanks for the tip, 'completing-read' was the missing piece of the
puzzle for me.
> What more do you need? The manual is your friend.
I must admit I don't find everything so crystal clear and obvious in the
Elisp manual as you describe it here. Especially in the section about
(interactive), more and more comples examples would be helpful. On the
other hand, a 1000page manual is already thick enough, so I would not
call that a bug.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-28 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-28 11:15 (interactive "rP") valid? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-28 11:38 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-28 11:42 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-28 13:20 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-28 14:36 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-28 15:13 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-28 16:42 ` How to write (interactive) with user-selection from predefined enumeration? (was Re: (interactive "rP") valid?) Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-28 17:27 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-28 18:46 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.511.1369747231.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-28 15:35 ` (interactive "rP") valid? Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <mailman.521.1369756484.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-30 10:34 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <<slrnkq9jm0.2vb.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>
2013-05-28 15:54 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <<87mwrfe4oy.fsf@gmail.com>
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