From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33007: 27.0.50; Proposal for function to edit and return string Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:31:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87lg74zk2k.fsf@web.de> References: <86pnwh4je8.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com> <83bm81xl84.fsf@gnu.org> <20181011063321.GD27672@protected.rcdrun.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539264699 21325 195.159.176.226 (11 Oct 2018 13:31:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:31:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 33007@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 15:31:34 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAb3p-0005Kh-WC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:31:16 +0200 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([94.218.210.177]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MF3Nr-1fuOy71y9b-00GJyN; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:31:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20181011063321.GD27672@protected.rcdrun.com> (Jean Louis's message of "Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:33:21 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:5vYB0L7oEax+w8VjX+NJM9l9F4B9L292x67KV0Fk4ubxA2eKqtz 5Eea6+/Av+I8Ju+3P7wka57k9ZTJCzH/cOuayUkjYLOfD6bEkEpdEPCHP5oob4eLK0WZMEg pP/JjWWFah077vb/6iy1vRpPcFpxO8I6cFxczzh1I+RvNOwAR1jAixGx9FP536jcl/1eaA9 /ku1ndUc6VqhteExYvpQA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:/yrrbZX/3o4=:PvAYrW4uJCwaaiwD108KI7 xXV0byzBuAmhx/W0SiM/HPOcgLYTiDwORhxlqOrT3v5inoYyIvKQf97p2SqPlRV11BO220PFJ 0U9KRHJGy9dXhYuwbMRnNVg197TneUp65t3KrA049RG7QQeZpB1XCMr+54r/cYE4M1/hs66kT FTPVF1bL54j9VkKB6qTlcJ94lkl09SZW4tKZUtwGTiQ7pohGs3Rq5WoqYWWP/ou7FcGxDMJRA /6pbVOpNwS62pKdJL/cw9rEiHlz84MzbzosKPrYzVY7pURrdPDT8Nr8jJlUEARfY+ft9AVNZj /HwcNia4VQAxu++10x3zB/r+Uy8XSp4D5fayBIIUwkNIKroK4glvHEXtXxihyUfSgj70zgWWq nbPO3FEmNKbT8bbtmAAQAc11+kJR6Svuw5S6aFgrZ6j5xTSm2tDrCOVo91Km2qnvoYSr3FXbM fbTr4K0DK7BAj32oI2MtAchYJ8eISeqfm8e5RIwWNmLwagKFFW7MaPwDWxhte3htAeaXl7q9u xVt4yMuhIqin6V8KiTjtH0zepxK/OLH07deTWaL+mJofkiMpTZCxzR74THIfvgQt6DPjYsnvL sdEW41nVLJF47zz/RS9b6uHyxG2oglmz6Y2plb+HBWLRdw1c/QaUMgXbCLY450b9kg0QKJVFP Peb3s4BObQvYXt6GBVWCWY8uMSp2DI7ytJkxfQXEl15xRdEqWYW97hKzXpEqebDEhrxElX8Qj RW8J1UUpCZhuvWdJgsbdHY3Irs2n0BEGWB8eowJxRb3BFj/0DX/dv/H3J/1Lm48M34tM/x3F X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:151111 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > Something like this below shall become read-from-buffer [...] I agree that such an interface would be useful for Emacs. I think it already has been reinvented multiple times in Emacs itself. I invented it myself. Some minor thoughts: The input buffer should be more controllable: modes and keymap shouldn't be fixed. Also, it should be possible to prefill the buffer with a string describing what the user is expected to do, and which is ignored after the user has finished. Michael.