From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any standard function to prompt for multiple comma-separated items? Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:39:30 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <84heegw3p9.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037552268 5362 80.91.224.249 (17 Nov 2002 16:57:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18DSjy-0001OD-00 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:57:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18DSga-0004xd-00; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:54:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1ebe3.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1ebe3.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.235.227) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1037551170 16749331 217.225.235.227 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8vbysCGW22lXglFOjenUszTpBbY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107134 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3685 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3685 Peter S Galbraith writes: > For MH-E, I'm looking for code already available in Emacs to do > completing-read for multiple comma-separated items. e.g. The documentation for completing-read mentions that TABLE can also be a function `that does the completion itself'. Alas, I couldn't find any more info. But maybe you could write a dummy function that invokes debug, then you can see which arguments are passed to the function. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)