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: Fri, 2 May 2008 07:35:24 -0700 Message-ID: <004401c8ac61$c29c0870$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <004901c8a19f$b9ef5140$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com><7dbe73ed0804192323y311f967apd1c0e98d5732abe9@mail.gmail.com><480AF1A0.8060408@gmail.com> <002b01c8a57d$7a4de740$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> 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 1209739537 4456 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2008 14:45:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Emacs-Devel' To: "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" , "'Mathias Dahl'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 16:46:12 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 1JrwWH-0001OI-8Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 16:45:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrwVa-0000Dy-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 10:45:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrwVT-00009R-VU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 10:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrwVR-0008Us-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 10:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49931 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrwVQ-0008Ug-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 10:45:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrwMz-0005Dw-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 10:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m42EaEwL019575; Fri, 2 May 2008 08:36:14 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m42E1exS011300; Fri, 2 May 2008 08:36:13 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3664635491209738925; Fri, 02 May 2008 07:35:25 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.66.54) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 02 May 2008 07:35:25 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 In-reply-to: <002b01c8a57d$7a4de740$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> Thread-Index: AciiuMv79fO9H3zvRZyPn32lliz8hgCw+lbQAbkoXVA= 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:96336 Archived-At: > > >> 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?