From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: need obsolete arg in (read-from-minibuffer ...) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:23:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4D83BF4A.1030707@mousecar.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300479851 32358 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2011 20:24:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:24:11 +0000 (UTC) To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 18 21:24:06 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0gDN-0008Ha-D7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:24:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51350 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0gDM-0006O6-To for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:24:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36265 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0gD2-0006O1-1h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0gD0-0005Ma-N2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:55768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0gD0-0005MV-Ch for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:23:42 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-016.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.16]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MDhri-1QGYvV3bJe-00HaJg; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:23:41 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101213) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:foyevxv0IaVZCVwJ3YBnunF7T4/YEUsmLasUEJzhAJM DcUELNF2fUFzkaNgBFHK7LTZorFFr5IM61HDK1aNrxIuOE6j5O y4b9CaTlUKMQGL2N2Rr2k0WTyDNoJAAh2QxAvx1jfocRBypbrf QspB4loWkJqu6CQwLLjPLv9Qsanr5IPx8U7BD113jtBTrMTHDY sTNiu3WCO3nZ7RURFbtDDVWlIe58Cm0a76+L8gnQh4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.208.4.195 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:80241 Archived-At: The below is a stripped-down version of a function I'm writing. It works as desired, but the docs say that 2nd arg is obsolete. However, I've tried a lot of permutations of the args listed and I can't get this function to work without using that obsolete 2nd arg. (defun mygetstr (def-val) (read-from-minibuffer "Enter/Edit string: " def-val nil nil nil def-val t)) What do the elisp mavens on this list say? -- Anything is easy if you know how to do it.