From: Felix Dietrich <felix.dietrich@sperrhaken.name>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: ‘read-string’ over ‘read-from-minibuffer’
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:05:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmvdfaxc.fsf_-_@sperrhaken.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwnpm9a61.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier via Users list for the's message of "Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:54:01 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> (let*((read-result (read-from-minibuffer "Prompt: "))
>
> Please don't use `read-from-minibuffer` unless you're defining
> a `read-<foo>` function.
> Use `read-string` instead.
Could you elaborate? I see that ‘read-string’ ensures that there is no
‘minibuffer-completion-table’ set, which is relevant for recursive
minibuffers, if I understand itʼs comment correctly. Anything else one
should be wary about?
--
Felix Dietrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-20 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-16 6:43 Run terminal command with output in current buffer lisa-asket
2021-07-16 6:53 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-07-16 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-16 9:04 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-16 11:48 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 11:30 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 11:58 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 15:14 ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-16 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-16 15:44 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 16:32 ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-16 17:00 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 19:35 ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-16 19:48 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 21:58 ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-17 5:58 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-17 9:09 ` terminal command with output in current buff lisa-asket
2021-07-17 9:19 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-17 11:33 ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-19 1:10 ` terminal command with output in current buffer Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-19 4:54 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-19 23:12 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 12:05 ` Felix Dietrich [this message]
2021-07-20 15:11 ` ‘read-string’ over ‘read-from-minibuffer’ Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 15:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 12:55 ` terminal command with output in current buffer Felix Dietrich
2021-07-20 18:15 ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-20 18:23 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 16:36 ` Run " Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-16 17:24 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 18:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-16 18:07 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 18:04 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-19 0:42 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-19 4:49 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-19 20:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-16 15:22 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 13:25 ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-16 13:48 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-16 14:28 ` lisa-asket
2021-07-16 15:06 ` lisa-asket
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87pmvdfaxc.fsf_-_@sperrhaken.name \
--to=felix.dietrich@sperrhaken.name \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).