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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: arvid-harnack@lavache.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
Subject: Re: Going through a list using the minibuffer
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 23:31:21 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8Wvni1i43hyeEWhwc7JEPxCfsq7Q_Rar9XcYArewOnYig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea-mime-60c62c0f-297e-b3c17a5@www-7.mailo.com>

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 at 23:02, <arvid-harnack@lavache.com> wrote:
>
> Using the command you described, how can I get tho selection into a variable
> named "sel" ?
>
> (completing-read "Choose a Greek letter: " '("alpha" "beta" "gamma") nil t)
>
> Is like this good?
>
>   (let* ((gkser '("alpha" "beta" "gamma"))
>          (gksel (completing-read
>                  "Choose a Greek letter: " gkser nil t)))
>     (message "gksel %s" gksel))

Have you tried it? Does it work the way you want? If you have and it
does, why are you asking me?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-13 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-12 22:13 Going through a list using the minibuffer arvid-harnack
2021-06-13  0:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-13 12:30   ` arvid-harnack
2021-06-13 15:09     ` Yuri Khan
2021-06-13 15:39       ` arvid-harnack
2021-06-13 15:57       ` Jean Louis
2021-06-13 16:02       ` arvid-harnack
2021-06-13 16:31         ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2021-06-13 19:48           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-13 20:02             ` Jean Louis
2021-06-13 20:13               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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