RE: completing-read-function variable for completing-read

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > > From: Drew Adams Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:27 PM
> > > 
> > > > From: Juri Linkov Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:53 PM
> > > > >> > >> How about having `completing-read' just call a
> > > > >> > >> `completing-read-function' variable if non-nil?
> > > > >> > >> This is the same thing that `read-file-name' does, with
> > > > >> > >> `read-file-name-function'.
> > > > >> > >
> > > > >> > > It sounds useful to authors of Emacs extensions and 
> > > > >> > > might even be useful directly for end users, letting
> > > > >> > > them decide what completing-read function they feel
> > > > >> > > like using on any particular day.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > I agree. Is there any reason not to add 
> > > > >> > completing-read-function?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> No one has objected to the idea.
> > > > >> Could someone please implement this?
> > > > >
> > > > > Any news on this?
> > > > 
> > > > Let's wait when Stefan moves completing-read to 
> > > > minibuffer.el and then just add
> > > > (if completing-read-function
> > > >     (funcall completing-read-function ;-)
> > > 
> > > Any news?
> > 
> > Any news?
> 
> Send a patch for it and we'll see

Sorry, someone else will have to patch the C code.

But the idea was that Stefan would move `completing-read' to Lisp
(`minibuffer.el'). ;-)

Then the patch for this will be trivial, as mentioned.