From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lisp read-from-minibuffer propels deep questions
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:24:59 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834655d6-5ed9-4045-b4a0-8acf105d84c5@t2g2000pbg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvk41ws3v8.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org
On Apr 3, 6:06 pm, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > slightly frustrated with emacs lisp read-from-minibuffer.
>
> Then don't use it. It's mostly an internal function used to implement
> things like read-string, read-file-name, read-directory-name, ...
i probably wouldn't have used it if i've read the elisp manual on
minibuffers.
Xah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-04 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-03 2:01 lisp read-from-minibuffer propels deep questions Xah Lee
2012-04-03 4:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2012-04-03 5:35 ` Drew Adams
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2012-04-03 5:58 ` Xah Lee
2012-04-04 1:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-04 4:24 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2012-04-13 2:03 ` Joe keane
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