From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Selecting default prompt text Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:35:40 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1234441717.125678@arno.fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234446090 20319 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2009 13:41:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:41:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 14:42:45 2009 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 1LXbq0-0006ZE-Pu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:42:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXboh-0006Ot-0R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:41:23 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!rileyrgdev.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 65 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/H3jhMpwxQd3XdscNwAzmaAok/D2xG1RjaNXalBfrqjnBnFoLKFiFouZTS0cNAAm1BxGnDBvutqeqlIFuYf4oUjjx3oedi+nCjt/WTeXH6TrcNrkbY13cxzczlHSRYXUXqCHbcdCZq7w== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:35:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+3FBtvzmy58GnKMcAVOldWxYB3faMNng1W7oaayuaUOw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:EOtx1XI/OoV6PmKjD+hI4VCHaaY= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166772 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:62082 Archived-At: Andreas Politz writes: > Richard Riley wrote: >> Kevin Rodgers writes: >> >>> Richard Riley wrote: >>>> I like my interactive functions to generally use the word or region at >>>> point as a default. Is there a way to make the read-string mini buffer >>>> input to pre-select the default value? >>>> >>>> e.g >>>> >>>> consider >>>> >>>> (setq url (read-string (format "Url (%s) :" url) url nil url)) >>>> >>>> Here I would like to see at the input prompt >>>> >>>> Url (xyz): xyz >>>> >>>> with the default value of "xyz" already selected. In other words >>>> the same behaviour as when you tab into a populated entry field in most >>>> of applications. >>> (let ((url-at-point (thing-at-point 'url))) >>> (read-string (if url-at-point >>> (format "URL (%s): " url-at-point) >>> "URL: ") >>> nil nil url-at-point)) >> >> Hi Kevin, >> >> Sorry if I was not clear. I don't mean a default value - I mean >> pre-selected as in "in region". e.g when you tab to a field in a web >> form for example - The data in the field is highlighted/selected. I >> already had a default value set as "url" in the code above. >> >> e.g >> >> goto www.Google.com >> >> enter some text and tab to a button then tab back. The text in the >> search field is selected. >> >> >> > > Something like this ? > > (defun minibuffer-select-inital-input () > (let ((start (next-single-char-property-change 1 'read-only))) > (when (< start (point-max)) > (set-mark start) > (setq mark-active t)))) > > (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'minibuffer-select-inital-input) > (read-string "> " "Hallo") > > -ap Yes, thanks. But I released I was hoping for too much here since region/mark etc works so many different ways depending on settings. As "dim" in the #emacs said, probably best to rely on C-a C-k. e.g With my setting hitting right arrow there results in "end of buffer" error. Thanks for your time though!