From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: How to get current input string in predicate to completing-read Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:42:04 +0200 Message-ID: <489B6C2C.7030002@gmail.com> 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 1218145353 22898 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 21:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:42:33 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 23:43:25 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 1KRDGU-00042m-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:43:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34192 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRDFY-0008K4-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:42:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRDFU-0008JX-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRDFR-0008IA-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56955 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRDFR-0008I6-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:46195) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRDFQ-0005Ps-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:63959 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KRDFM-0007Zn-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:42:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080807-0, 2008-08-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KRDFM-0007Zn-9L. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KRDFM-0007Zn-9L df9720e05f9d61fd65ea66c4a37bb57e X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:102179 Archived-At: Is it possible to get the current input string from the prompt inside the PREDICATE function in completing-read? It it is possible then you can for example use regexp matching using the input string as a regexp. If this is not possible then I suggest to add this functionality.