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 21:48:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87tum1lf5c.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="29173"; 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:KQFqzL9cPFwJuJ5ooSQRXtNCngE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 21:49:10 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 1lsW6Y-0007QW-La for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 21:49:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49658 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsW6X-0006kC-Nc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 15:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsW68-0006k3-Hy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 15:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:47786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsW65-000418-FU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 15:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lsW63-0006dS-SV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 21:48:39 +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=0.249, 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:130798 Archived-At: Yuri Khan wrote: >> Is like this good? >> >> (let* ((gkser '("alpha" "beta" "gamma")) >> (gksel (completing-read >> "Choose a Greek letter: " gkser nil t))) >> (message "gksel %s" gksel)) > > Have you tried it? Does it work the way you want? If you > have and it does, why are you asking me? The code looks good to me but the names are perhaps a bit cryptic. This is Lisp, not C or Perl mind you... The next step should be to write a defun that works for the general case, so the prompt string and the list of options can be provided as arguments. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal