From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: menu system in recent Emacs? Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 20:53:31 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <874nry84qc.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87zk9to1bh.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878vhcgfwu.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjfibwhj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87havybs60.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87havybeks.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87wr4u8jgb.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87havy31k5.fsf@gmx.com> <87sjfi8dxt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762cem97x.fsf@gnuvola.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336006430 4714 80.91.229.3 (3 May 2012 00:53:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 00:53:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 03 02:53:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1SPkIk-0004TQ-MV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2012 02:53:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54775 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPkIk-0004yQ-62 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 20:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56173) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPkIg-0004y8-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 20:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPkIf-0004ux-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 20:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPkIe-0004us-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 20:53:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SPkIc-0004NT-Sq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2012 02:53:38 +0200 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2012 02:53:38 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2012 02:53:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m9hs9G4cu0yi1mc8LkCOYonjVGs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150232 Archived-At: On Thu, 03 May 2012 01:52:50 +0200 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: TN> () Ted Zlatanov TN> () Wed, 02 May 2012 17:34:38 -0400 TN> Also it's hard to insert explanatory text [...]. TN> Can that be done somehow? I don't see a way. TN> You can include that text in the prompt, with newlines for readability. TN> (completing-read "Here are some choices:\n- A\t- B\n- C\t- D\nChoose one: " TN> '("A" "B" "C" "D")) I see, it's obvious now that you point it out :) I can use that. I would really like it to show the list of choices immediately, as if the user pressed `TAB'. Can that be fed into the function somehow as a synthetic keypress? I'd prefer to avoid modifying `completing-read' in the source, so my code will work with older Emacsen as well. Ted