From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to read an integer from the minibuffer Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:18:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87czn7qhx7.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87ee7nqomk.fsf@mbork.pl> <874k8jz372.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23459"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 28.0.50 Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Po Lu Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 08:19:34 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 1ml4Mw-0005uI-NG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:19:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40222 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ml4Mu-0005Gq-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 02:19:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ml4M5-0005GU-Qe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 02:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:33566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ml4M3-00055N-Qc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 02:18:41 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7D0E71A4; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:18:34 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id q0Vix2VPp7XW; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:18:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (178235147228.dynamic-3-poz-k-0-1-0.vectranet.pl [178.235.147.228]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D4BAFE688F; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:18:28 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <874k8jz372.fsf@yahoo.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:134475 Archived-At: On 2021-11-11, at 06:11, Po Lu wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> 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). >> >> How do I do that? One way would be to use `read-from-minibuffer' with >> a suitable keymap, but that seems slightly low-level. If that is the >> way to go, is there a good way to set up a keymap so that nothing except >> some specified characters are self-inserting? IOW, is `suppress-keymap' >> the way to go or is there some other way? >> >> TIA, > > Perhaps you're looking for `read-number'? Thanks, that is nice, but not very general. Another value I want to read is a time in the hh:mm format, for example. Thanks anyway, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl