From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Listing completions automatically Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:06:37 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116022010 25815 80.91.229.2 (13 May 2005 22:06:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 14 00:06:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWiIf-0000pn-FW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2005 00:06:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWiQE-0006OW-96 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 18:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWiON-0003iq-QD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 18:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWiOJ-0003dq-7R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 18:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWiMJ-0002I3-EL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 18:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DWiQ9-00039b-Lu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 18:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DWiBL-0008Ru-HH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 23:58:55 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 23:58:55 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 23:58:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26578 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26578 PT wrote: > I'd like to offer the user a list from which she has to select an item. > Since the user doesn't know what items are on the list the possible > items should be shown immediately. > > I tried using completing-read, but it seems the user has to press TAB > at least once to have the list of possible completions actually diplayed. > > Is there way to show the list immediately? (let ((unread-command-events (cons ?\t unread-command-events))) (completing-read PROMPT TABLE ...)) -- Kevin Rodgers