From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to read an integer from the minibuffer Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:12:10 +0000 Message-ID: <993162c2a17d28ba4e46@heytings.org> References: <87ee7nqomk.fsf@mbork.pl> <87v90ybymh.fsf@zoho.eu> <87y25u9pzj.fsf@zoho.eu> <993162c2a13d5ea3b0aa@heytings.org> <87lf1u9pdj.fsf@zoho.eu> <993162c2a1f85349fcfa@heytings.org> <87bl2q9o2u.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4163"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 02:12:54 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 1mlL7e-0000rB-4c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:12:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46888 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlL7d-0001yq-6V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:12:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlL70-0001x5-CZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:12:14 -0500 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:35082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlL6y-00073s-8i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:12:14 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20210101; t=1636679530; bh=yCmqOu2x4W6WlmQeOCDehWt3JvqPehqr7xlUzSnGowk=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=K3zrymHKWWUijn4zzkKUi2Q+fGgkIPlDe6CZXr7vjbapPhhnJAUTYtH26gNnG1E0O IYgG9i7gaumATkvoQbvxjBErCcCmSjbA4IjU1tDScQaaPzoJYVWuv7Nu9ZNYgkMJKG UMLcepYO/DdRLZVYN/dmOmLsze+twGQRSGSBVtSBYfqucctrnMhcDohQqyPvH60Je/ ceHpY0a6FVh/67GGpoYOXxjbyxbVZLPcxuC852ApcaCnr5QWb1Zmte8aKIJtpxX5LF /cYaACdLA792ocfU6ql8RPAHD6wkib9kQQJLS9Ri92oAuqhsveCSMEmz4Joa+pgkr0 DJ0hhuEsRRScw== In-Reply-To: <87bl2q9o2u.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:134511 Archived-At: >>>> Apparently it doesn't do what I want here, namely converting "[0-9]" >>>> into "0123456789", "[0-9a-f]" into "0123456789abcdef", and so forth. >>> >>> I think it can! >> >> Please show me how > > I don't know but you realize it must be possible since otherwise how can > it be used ... > Of course it's possible; what I said is that there's AFAIK no predefined function in Elisp that does it.