From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp - only accepting input of known values Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:40:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87y689jyc6.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <87oc95lnch.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291218743 18993 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2010 15:52:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:52:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 01 16:52:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNoye-0007JD-Mh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:52:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNoyd-0007ss-Vu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:52:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49650 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNonQ-0002Ro-UI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNonN-0001md-Ea for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:40:40 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNonN-0001m3-4j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:40:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNonM-0001Gv-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:40:36 +0100 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:40:36 +0100 Original-Received: from tassilo by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:40:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fvg42o8lRKQr7EUQi4BM+GmuAZs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75464 Archived-At: Gary writes: >>> Is it somehow possible to accept input from a set of known values >>> (and only those values), possibly based on regex but I'm not married >>> to that idea? >> >> What exactly do you mean with "input"? Input to what? A function? > > User input. Wow, that is too specific. :-) But if you mean completion in the minibuffer, have a look at `completing-read'. Bye, Tassilo