From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Embedded list selection with ido-completing-read. Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 03:16:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87a6iz1at1.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87r1cbwnda.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23927"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q03guaE7W6CQXwIwsA1saCHDFkA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 03:18:06 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1meS9F-00063h-Rr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 03:18:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50632 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1meS9E-00058K-8z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60380) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1meS8M-00056T-Rs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1meS8J-00069r-Um for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:17:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1meS8I-0004uF-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 03:17:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134075 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao wrote: > I still can't figure out how to use your suggestions above > to further simplify my implementation below: > > (defun my-pw-ATOMIC_POSITIONS2 () > (interactive > (list > (insert "ATOMIC_POSITIONS " > (completing-read > "flag: " > '(("alat") > ("bohr") > ("angstrom") > ("crystal") > ("crystal_sg") > ) > ))))) Same as I said before ... 1) Use a formal parameter. 2) Don't do anything in the `interactive' form except get/assign the argument(s). 3) Test interactively and non-interactively (i.e., from Lisp). (defun atomic-position (flag) (interactive (list (completing-read "flag: " '("alat" "angstrom" "bohr" "crystal" "crystal_sg") ))) (insert (format "Atomic Kitten: %s" flag) )) ;; test: ;; (call-interactively #'atomic-position) ;; (atomic-position "bohr") -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal