From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: completing-read-function variable for completing-read Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:27:10 -0700 Message-ID: <002801c8e63b$6ea623e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <004901c8a19f$b9ef5140$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com><7dbe73ed0804192323y311f967apd1c0e98d5732abe9@mail.gmail.com><480AF1A0.8060408@gmail.com><002b01c8a57d$7a4de740$c2b22382@us.oracle.com><004401c8ac61$c29c0870$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <8763tws4hi.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216099741 434 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2008 05:29:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Juri Linkov'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 15 07:29:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KId6i-0001lV-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:29:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KId5p-0000lJ-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:28:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KId5j-0000lD-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:28:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KId5h-0000kz-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:28:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36304 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KId5g-0000kw-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:14790) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KId5g-00084p-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m6F5Sf08030996; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m6E94x7i006163; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:28:40 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3708854401216099631; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:27:11 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/67.174.192.82) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:27:10 -0700 X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <8763tws4hi.fsf@jurta.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: AcissBb91XpNKlJDSMK6jB9LiOeVnw5in2hg Importance: High X-Message-Flag: Follow up X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100715 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:53 PM > >> > >> How about having `completing-read' just call a > >> > >> `completing-read-function' variable if non-nil? > >> > >> This is the same thing that `read-file-name' does, with > >> > >> `read-file-name-function'. > >> > > > >> > > It sounds useful to authors of Emacs extensions and > >> > > might even be useful directly for end users, letting > >> > > them decide what completing-read function they feel > >> > > like using on any particular day. > >> > > >> > I agree. Is there any reason not to add completing-read-function? > >> > >> No one has objected to the idea. > >> Could someone please implement this? > > > > Any news on this? > > Let's wait when Stefan moves completing-read to minibuffer.el and then > just add (if completing-read-function (funcall completing-read-function ;-) Any news?