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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	"'Mathias Dahl'" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: 'Emacs-Devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: completing-read-function variable for completing-read
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 07:35:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004401c8ac61$c29c0870$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002b01c8a57d$7a4de740$c2b22382@us.oracle.com>

> > >> 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?





  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-18 22:01 completing-read-function variable for completing-read Drew Adams
2008-04-20  6:23 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-04-20  7:32   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-23 20:06     ` Drew Adams
2008-05-02 14:35       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-05-02 23:52         ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-15  5:27           ` Drew Adams
2009-09-17 22:54             ` Drew Adams
2009-09-18  2:58               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-18  4:07                 ` Michael Olson
2009-09-18  7:33                 ` Drew Adams

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