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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Florian v. Savigny" <florian@fsavigny.de>,
	John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Fwd: Choosing interactively from a list (starting off at any position)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:20:30 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ff79013-f4e1-4be1-97da-e66e3cc048ba@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<87oardah6y.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_36_000>>

> But your solution works perfectly - thanks a lot for your ideas!! I
> would still like to understand why it works, though. ;-)

It works for the reason you conjectured: you are supplying the same
list for the completion candidates and for the history.  And as you
mentioned, the history should be a variable (a symbol), in this case
`choose-from-list-history'.  There's nothing else to understand.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-09  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-07  2:58 Choosing interactively from a list Florian v. Savigny
2014-12-07  3:33 ` John Mastro
2014-12-07 10:56   ` Choosing interactively from a list (starting off at any position) Florian v. Savigny
     [not found]     ` <CAOj2CQQ45gZpmuQUsMNp=iokkbB1Wz2cWpy6ZKfZ=BzyoSY6xg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-08 19:19       ` Fwd: " John Mastro
2014-12-08 22:51         ` Florian v. Savigny
     [not found]         ` <<87oardah6y.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_36_000>
2014-12-09  2:20           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-12-09 19:52             ` John Mastro

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