From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to get in progress Key Sequence from Elisp Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 13:15:55 -0800 Message-ID: <0A9AD948985444A1BB410F4B8A960BA3@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354483040 18393 80.91.229.3 (2 Dec 2012 21:17:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 21:17:20 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Barry OReilly'" , "'help-gnu-emacs'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 02 22:17:30 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TfGto-0003cV-Kd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:16:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49402 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfGtc-00039F-Fj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfGtX-000391-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:16:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfGtW-0007jy-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:16:10 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:43739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfGtV-0007js-SB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:16:10 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qB2LG72P023028 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 2 Dec 2012 21:16:08 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qB2LG6eP021313 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 2 Dec 2012 21:16:06 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt118.oracle.com (abhmt118.oracle.com [141.146.116.70]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qB2LG6km023444; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 15:16:06 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:16:06 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ac3QyPeets/CY1PeTaK28I56rxbN4QABmQJw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88023 Archived-At: > When I'm in the middle of inputting a Key Sequence, how may > I get a data structure with the Key Sequence entered thus > far from Elisp? > ... > I can do this if I can get the Key Sequence as the user has > been entered at that time. If I understand what you are asking, see `this-command-keys'. E.g.: (defun foo () "..." (let* ((this-key (this-command-keys)) (prefix (substring this-key 0 (1- (length this-key))))) ;; (message "PREFIX: %S, DESCRIPTION: %S" ;; prefix (key-description prefix)) prefix)) This is what I use in the code for Icicles key completion.