From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: lisp read-from-minibuffer propels deep questions Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <834655d6-5ed9-4045-b4a0-8acf105d84c5@t2g2000pbg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333566444 12255 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2012 19:07:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:07:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 04 21:07:23 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFVYB-00025p-7f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:07:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52606 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFVHg-0003HI-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:50:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.vt.edu!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!t2g2000pbg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1333513499 3845 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2012 04:24:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 04:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t2g2000pbg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.142 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) X-Received-Bytes: 1601 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:191903 comp.emacs:102373 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84320 Archived-At: On Apr 3, 6:06=A0pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > slightly frustrated with emacs lisp read-from-minibuffer. > > Then don't use it. =A0It'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