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: Going through a list using the minibuffer Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:13:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87a6nt1q1d.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87tum1lf5c.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18801"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:SgMhVWY+UwMcxhRM3OxxNY3snw8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 22:15:05 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 1lsWVd-0004ez-Jg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:15:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58760 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsWVb-0006Ua-S8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:15:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsWUR-0006UB-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:13:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:48962) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsWUO-0002rS-AR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lsWUI-0002vo-8w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:13:42 +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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, 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:130800 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: >> The code looks good to me but the names are perhaps a bit >> cryptic. This is Lisp, not C or Perl mind you... > > Let's see (✿╹◡╹) > > (defalias 'my 'let*) > (defalias '$input 'completing-read) > (defalias 'print$_ 'message) > > (my (($gkser '("alpha" "beta" "gamma")) > ($gksel ($input "Choose a Greek letter: " $gkser nil t))) > (print$_ "gksel %s" $gksel)) ⇒ "gksel beta" Ha :) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal