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: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:27:34 -0700 Message-ID: <008001c8edcb$b5276120$0ab32382@us.oracle.com> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87mykhz6tf.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87od4wgg8p.fsf@catnip.gol.com><86od4vmi5i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <873am6n21q.fsf@jurta.org> <87sku5if8t.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87od4sti4g.fsf@jurta.org><867ibcekf3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86tzegcq15.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86bq0nctbv.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86r69jb8z2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <005a01c8edae$beff6480$0ab32382@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 1216931339 9143 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2008 20:28:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:28:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 22:29:48 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 1KM7R7-00073k-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:29:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KM7QE-0001kH-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:28:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KM7Q8-0001j4-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KM7Q3-0001gE-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:28:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53030 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KM7Q3-0001g9-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:62517) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KM7Q2-0006hU-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:28:11 -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 m6OKRn3p017787; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:27:49 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m6ODO6iX024668; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:27:48 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 11028894181216931252; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:27:32 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.179.10) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:27:32 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 thread-index: AcjtybiFKht90vzWTTe9fpm/5eJ+lwAARCbw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 In-Reply-To: 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:101419 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? > > > > Let's wait when Stefan moves completing-read to > > minibuffer.el and then just add > > (if completing-read-function > > (funcall completing-read-function ;-) SM> I'm not opposed to such a change, but I have other things SM> to do. So if someone else wants to install such a thing, SM> he should go right ahead. I hope someone will please do that. Thanks.