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From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: completing-read a list of keywords
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:21:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39c30037-96dc-808e-2c59-6b0cffb4e652@grinta.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-86sx5HCgL=E=Je5=eY+nNNj7VFHgzX6AxW7ijnpaSWkg@mail.gmail.com>

On 15-04-2020 11:33, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 13:30, Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net> wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to come up with a solution to be able to use completing-read
>> to prompt the user for a comma (or space) separated list of words.
>> Unfortunately the completion framework is still rather impenetrable to
>> me. Does anyone have pointers to relevant examples and documentation?
> 
> I don't think completing-read supports this use-case. You might want
> to look at completing-read-multiple.

Thanks Noam! I didn't know about completing-read-multiple. It comes very
close to do what I want. However, I am unable to make it work for
elements separated by ", " as SPC is mapped to the complete action. Is
there a way to customize this behavior?

Thank you.

Cheers,
Dan



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-15 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-15 17:30 completing-read a list of keywords Daniele Nicolodi
2020-04-15 17:33 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-15 18:21   ` Daniele Nicolodi [this message]
2020-04-15 18:26     ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-15 18:41       ` Joost Kremers
2020-04-15 19:32         ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-04-15 22:13           ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-04-15 19:13       ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-04-15 18:55     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-15 20:15       ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-04-15 22:42         ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-15 22:06 Roland Winkler
2020-04-15 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-18 22:07   ` Roland Winkler
2020-04-19  2:30     ` Stefan Monnier

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