From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Fwd: Choosing interactively from a list (starting off at any position) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:20:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9ff79013-f4e1-4be1-97da-e66e3cc048ba@default> References: <<87bnng2mkh.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_36_000> <8761dnhgog.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_36_000> > <<87oardah6y.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_36_000>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418091675 13856 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 02:21:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 02:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Florian v. Savigny" , John Mastro Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 03:21:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyAQF-00026y-SB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:21:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37401 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyAQF-0003XK-Dm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:21:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52469) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyAPv-0003XC-C4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:20:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyAPm-0006Fx-IV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:20:47 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:50819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyAPm-0006Fe-2l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:20:38 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sB92KWLn008203 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 9 Dec 2014 02:20:34 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sB92KVBC009896 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 9 Dec 2014 02:20:32 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0017.oracle.com (abhmp0017.oracle.com [141.146.116.23]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sB92KU5b011183; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 02:20:31 GMT In-Reply-To: <<87oardah6y.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_36_000>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101481 Archived-At: > 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.