From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Selecting default prompt text Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:27:35 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1234441717.125678@arno.fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234442443 6972 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2009 12:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 13:41:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LXatC-0001Dt-JX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:41:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXars-0001V1-Pj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.germany.com!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1234441792 18975 143.93.54.11 (12 Feb 2009 12:29:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:29:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-221-054.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166771 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62081 Archived-At: Richard Riley wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: > >> Richard Riley wrote: >>> I like my interactive functions to generally use the word or region at >>> point as a default. Is there a way to make the read-string mini buffer >>> input to pre-select the default value? >>> >>> e.g >>> >>> consider >>> >>> (setq url (read-string (format "Url (%s) :" url) url nil url)) >>> >>> Here I would like to see at the input prompt >>> >>> Url (xyz): xyz >>> >>> with the default value of "xyz" already selected. In other words >>> the same behaviour as when you tab into a populated entry field in most >>> of applications. >> (let ((url-at-point (thing-at-point 'url))) >> (read-string (if url-at-point >> (format "URL (%s): " url-at-point) >> "URL: ") >> nil nil url-at-point)) > > Hi Kevin, > > Sorry if I was not clear. I don't mean a default value - I mean > pre-selected as in "in region". e.g when you tab to a field in a web > form for example - The data in the field is highlighted/selected. I > already had a default value set as "url" in the code above. > > e.g > > goto www.Google.com > > enter some text and tab to a button then tab back. The text in the > search field is selected. > > > Something like this ? (defun minibuffer-select-inital-input () (let ((start (next-single-char-property-change 1 'read-only))) (when (< start (point-max)) (set-mark start) (setq mark-active t)))) (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'minibuffer-select-inital-input) (read-string "> " "Hallo") -ap