From: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: One-off history for read-string
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:33:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOj2CQSm6OOxowx0BNC7pdezZYoK8LyfB7Obk+-dHxd9byXOwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj0arl88.fsf@debian.uxu>
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> > However, I don't care about /writing/ it to some
> > variable in Emacs, since the new entry will be
> > uploaded to the server anyway, and taken from there
> > the next time, together with the rest of
> > the history.
>
> So then, what does it matter?
He wants history to be available to the user (e.g. `M-p'), but he wants
that history to come from a server rather than be accumulated in the
usual way. So the history on the server is likely changing over time,
but from the Lisp code's perspective it's conceptually a new list each
time.
Something like this, if I understand him correctly:
(defvar readonly-history)
(defun get-history-list-from-server ()
;; Imagine we fetch this list of HTTP
(list "foo" "bar" "baz" "quux"))
(defun my-read-string (prompt)
(let ((readonly-history (get-history-list-from-server)))
(read-string prompt nil 'readonly-history)))
--
john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-26 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-24 12:10 One-off history for read-string Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-24 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-24 16:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-24 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-25 0:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-25 7:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-26 2:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-26 2:33 ` John Mastro [this message]
2015-09-26 2:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-26 7:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27 1:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-27 6:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27 23:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-28 0:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-26 7:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
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