From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: completing-read depricated initial-input Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 04:17:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87bkuin6ta.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <86r13hubaw.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <86letphfke.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <87bkuljsvz.fsf@yahoo.com> <86fsjvlrjo.fsf@gnu.org> <874k0bkco7.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87letnhhj3.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgi3itb7.fsf@dataswamp.org> <86a6a3zj4y.fsf@gnu.org> <87a6a3y3zu.fsf@gnus.org> <874k0bh2v4.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13935"; 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:j9J5hfhDSv8/aTYs3riWWIQC+YU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 04:19:34 2022 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 1o4Yuz-0003QU-QT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2022 04:19:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34046 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o4Yuy-00089O-9b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:19:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o4YtK-00078G-3R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:52600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o4YtI-0006XY-EY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o4YtG-0001MM-2U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2022 04:17:46 +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, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:138056 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn wrote: >> (let ((name "Danger")) >> (read-string (format-prompt "Name" name) nil nil name)) > > Nice! Actually no, try to replace existing code with that ... It's the two occurrences of name (above) that makes it clumsy and ugly. Also this is not needed functionally, it's logical that it isn't but as an example see for example `read-number' which already does this for you. Eval this: (read-number "pills/day: " 4) S0 why not `read-string' as well? However - one can do one's own function for that ... (defun read-string-1 (ps &optional def hist) (setq ps (format-prompt ps def)) (read-string ps nil hist def)) (read-string-1 "name" "Danger") -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal