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Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:

> For MH-E, I'm looking for code already available in Emacs to do
> completing-read for multiple comma-separated items.

I think Gnus just has people hit RET after each item.  Entering an
empty item terminates the sequence.  (Gnus has the same problem for
the Newsgroups header.)

Does this help?

kai
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