From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Going through a list using the minibuffer
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 23:02:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMZkZkVK9sBoS/Ki@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tum1lf5c.fsf@zoho.eu>
* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-06-13 22:49]:
> Yuri Khan wrote:
>
> >> 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?
>
> The code looks good to me but the names are perhaps a bit
> cryptic. This is Lisp, not C or Perl mind you...
Let's see (✿╹◡╹)
(defalias 'my 'let*)
(defalias '$input 'completing-read)
(defalias 'print$_ 'message)
(my (($gkser '("alpha" "beta" "gamma"))
($gksel ($input "Choose a Greek letter: " $gkser nil t)))
(print$_ "gksel %s" $gksel)) ⇒ "gksel beta"
--
Jean
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-13 20:02 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
2021-06-13 19:48 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-13 20:02 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-06-13 20:13 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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