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: pymacs & interactivel isp functions Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:27:11 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1227111389.17262.159.camel@localhost> <000801c94a6d$7d216100$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <1227343194.20766.717.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227367701 633 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2008 15:28:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:28:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 22 16:29:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L3uQD-0008OQ-Ta for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:29:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3uP3-0005n1-Pa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:28:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3uOK-0005md-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3uOG-0005lB-J8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:27:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33584 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3uOG-0005l5-Di for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:27:20 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57268 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3uOF-00013i-QX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:27:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L3uOA-0007od-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:27:14 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:27:14 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:27:14 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 72 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Macintosh/20081105) In-Reply-To: <1227343194.20766.717.camel@localhost> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:60018 Archived-At: Matt Price wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 09:37 -0800, Drew Adams wrote: >>> (setq collection (edsquery-return-addresslist "matt")) >>> >>> which assigns this value to collection: >>> ("Matt Price " ...) >>> >>> my problem comes with a test function that triesto use the >>> results of a query as a collection for tab-completion: >>> >>> (defun matt/external-addressbook-completion (stub) >>> "get a list of addresses for tab-completion in a new email" >>> (interactive (list (completing-read "Name: " >>> (edsquery-return-addresslist (string)) >>> ;; collection >>> > > >> You used (string), which calls string with an empty list of args, so it >> concatenates all zero of those together into the empty string, "". > >>> to me it seems that the completion function isn't being sent the input >>> string. >> What input string? You're passing (string), which is "", not any input string. >> > thanks drew. i don't know why i thought that similar syntax had worked > in an earlier case -- clearly it must not have. this was very helpful > and now i am very close. > > i now have the following completion code: > > (defun matt/external-addressbook-completion (stub) > (interactive (list (completing-read "Name: " > #'edsquery-return-addresslist > nil t)))) > when called interactively, it _does_ suggest the first option in the > list that python returns, but it also gives me the following error: > > ad-Orig-minibuffer-complete: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, > ("Matt Price " "Matthew Garrett > " "Matt Zimmerman " "Matt > Fontaine " "Matt Wilks > " "Matthew Yates " > "Matthew Flaschen " "Matthew Vermeulen > " "Matthew East " "matthewreedy > " ...) > > i'm not sure, but it looks like it isn't breaking the cdr cell down into > its components before evaluating it? suggesting to me that, again, > there's something wrong with my syntax. When you pass a function to completing-read, it is not used to generate the list of canidate completions. As documented: collection can be a list of strings, an alist, an obarray or a hash table. collection can also be a function to do the completion itself. predicate limits completion to a subset of collection. See `try-completion' and `all-completions' for more details ... collection can also be a function to do the completion itself. It receives three arguments: the values string, predicate and nil. I think what you want is: (defun matt/external-addressbook-completion (stub) (interactive (list (completing-read "Name: " (edsquery-return-addresslist "") nil t)))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA