From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Read-string with pointer at start of initial value Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:56:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87efmcw4w2.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517010952 12530 195.159.176.226 (26 Jan 2018 23:55:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:55:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Whitfield Diffie Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 27 00:55:48 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 1efDq9-0001g0-Mt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:55:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36199 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efDsA-000858-Ai for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43575) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efDra-00081X-R5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:56:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efDrV-00078T-QW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:57292) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efDrV-00074k-GD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:56:49 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([94.216.137.3]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb004 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lr59f-1fHsWk3uz5-00efzD; Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:56:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Whitfield Diffie's message of "Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:58:15 -0800") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:2vJU/tNNs3qnn9JRGQlUgNObTJr9oxAo5s1q13706thzZ9k+zgj 6USXSKwt6LJG3XA5q6w60qDsAOk6obenFEspbEeyYHfWRlC4pY+vCJ4bmbO9yoP3KrRD+iq oL9+/oRZV9B+DzaA+NozRB8jiXjfMcD6MW/l+XIG5QuVFGL/gSz4Gxuly5DjvZ43cbJyM1t gDMUWv9HKiSkryHba1QaQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ka1T++KADJ4=:pEaaIGTmD71iRD1uWoezhs 2kBBbJPLEAGAi0u1tnpadQ3aJe9DAY0U6TFU8OWHgWVPxviFO2NW8hYv0qeYX/RtThZ3GOs3e QyyjRrTv+n8lYreGhO0KbfpClIQtTQrd54CfYdcYSvJgk1NV1hM86r1+Z/0JSc7yf1gZzuL1R zuB6NDzgfravxdDiougjMOQhvQo/woranvK4XM7JT4vA5tlI05Oah8uo9rHtwt3gcnytmfrD2 29gXdz2w7JI68QaXw98tuFF2Q0OjfCxPlspwr3zoeK2uI5DO/slwcYtyA9zcmvqayYPLPy2u1 faQ+ym+qVC3BeTE+v7PW1t3P3nnR5kI/C5KFso3aOHLgyo+Fkq7VjX+xTWvPRcFgdCI18F5db DFBjbo79RqnaaWQ1SRr4l/zaeKcHqerKLyz2domX0jHknyVTFWo42THiRBkvYG0SUUcXvw9oY slJFev6aTqYtwQZ+LdeGrP/Pqk7ei8UqClb9o2uZey1vIQUIz77TevJC3VJ7qpYCyn1XtfT3l PhFfW25a9Tc+nKZKVr2CuLTtXFlYqc9pxdQu1h384wLKEqAIq1p8Irasri5za+glf9+0p5JA2 bGjDfYCSF4YM2BxgVw469YldOECZkM10wcumbSeQSYDS1KB3dukKgQpG4DFj2uJafqQCl3+J0 3ZKMR2msZPmLOGyCltdb585c+kqyU62wwAj+kLsfPCipBBWzUTeWorrgLqcDGJGHPx0g8FkCG oU7i7oWpR9C5OYorZLOY2pOJcJvlx9LfMYmHX0qbEQOstQHnXFQUhUVwjJ2dhklIKHRHtZqC X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.3 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:115855 Archived-At: Whitfield Diffie writes: > I want to call read-string with the pointer at the start of the > initial value [...] (read-from-minibuffer "String: " (cons "Test" 1)) `read-string' does also accept a cons as INITIAL-INPUT to specify the cursor position, so the following also works: (read-string "String: " (cons "Test" 1)) but the docstring discourages its use. Michael.