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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Need for colorful completing read
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 00:07:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YxZlIYbIJW8IjFGl@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k06hy27y.fsf@gnus.org>

* Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> [2022-09-05 23:51]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > I would like to make a function similar to `completing-read' for the
> > choice of colors as shown by {M-x list-colors-display RET} so that I
> > can choose or select a color and that I can see the color while
> > selecting it.
> >
> > Is that possible or maybe already exists somewhere?
> 
> `read-color'

Thanks, that is great. 

I am inspecting it. There are 754 completion possibilities. Do you
think this number is changeable over few years?

I am asking as I think I should rather put the list of colors into the
database so that a column references other table of these colors. 

-- 
Jean

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-05 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-05 20:48 Need for colorful completing read Jean Louis
2022-09-05 20:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-05 21:07   ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-09-06  4:11     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-06 10:02     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-06 10:20       ` Jean Louis
2022-09-06  5:06   ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-09-06  8:59   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-06 10:03     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-06 10:11       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-06 10:27         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-06 16:50           ` Yuri Khan
2022-09-06 17:38             ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-06  5:05 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-09-11  6:26   ` Jean Louis

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