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: Going through a list using the minibuffer Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 02:14:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87fsxmmxh8.fsf@zoho.eu> References: 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="18955"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:YJmqlJ4GYbmFAW56jny9RKM2hxM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 02:15:42 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 1lsDmu-0004ha-9p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 02:15:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37380 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsDmt-0004tk-CR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsDmZ-0004tc-6G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:41808) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsDmX-0004Wc-Ga for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lsDmT-0004Cq-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 02:15:13 +0200 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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, 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: 2.1.23 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:130786 Archived-At: arvid-harnack wrote: > Would like to have a list of strings that can be selected > using the minibuffer. And then set a variable > > number "k" that corresponds to the location of the string in > the list. Try this ... ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;;; ;;; this file: ;;; http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/string-minibuffer.el ;;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/string-minibuffer.el (require 'cl-lib) (defun select-list-item (lst) (let ((ps "")) (cl-loop for i from 0 to (1- (length lst)) for l in lst do (setq ps (concat ps (format "%d: %s " i l)))) (nth (read-number (concat ps "[index?] ")) lst))) ;; (select-list-item '("test" "string" "three")) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal