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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: carlmarcos@tutanota.com, Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: result of completing-read contradicting require-match
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 02:54:50 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8X6O=ghrk9kiP+pUX+BT-NyeJfhOwZbP5kDtxhDq2-voA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YsCafTaxnxY3rNbw@protected.localdomain>

On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 at 02:29, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

> REQUIRE-MATCH can take the following values:
> - a function, which will be called with the input as the parameter.
>   If it returns a non-nil value, the minibuffer is exited with that value.

> other way to persist asking until you get the true result is here:
>
> (defun rcd-repeat-until-not-empty-string (function &rest args)
>   "Repeat FUNCTION with optional ARGS until result is not empty string."
>   (let ((result))
>     (while (string-empty-p (setq result (apply function args))))
>       result))

Based on the quoted part of the docstring, you could probably pass a
function that returns t for an allowed value, and nil for disallowed
values, including an empty string or nil.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-02 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-02 18:58 result of completing-read contradicting require-match carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-02 19:20 ` Jean Louis
2022-07-02 19:54   ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2022-07-02 20:07     ` Jean Louis
2022-07-02 20:38       ` Yuri Khan
2022-07-02 21:58         ` Jean Louis
2022-07-09 13:17     ` Jean Louis
2022-07-10 14:36       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-07-10 17:56         ` Jean Louis
2022-07-02 21:13   ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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