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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Input from buffer instead of minibuffer
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:45:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lifnmuf7.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: barmar-941723.21104330092012@news.eternal-september.org

On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:10:43 -0400 Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> In article <58f60ac7-2407-411c-92ba-13a4550f682a@googlegroups.com>,
>  Michael Haensel <mhaensel73@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone -
>> 
>> I'm writing a quiz program in Emacs Lisp. The program creates a new frame and 
>> buffer for the quiz questions. The quiz then runs something like this:
>> 
>> (insert "Please identify: [quiz item]")
>> (setq response
>>        (read-from-minibuffer "Please identify: [quiz item]"))
>> ... do stuff based on response
>> 
>> This displays the question in the buffer and the minibuffer. The response is 
>> read in from the minibuffer. This isn't deal-breakingly bad, but a better 
>> design would read the response from the buffer and skip the minibuffer 
>> entirely.
>> 
>> Is there an easy way to read a response from the buffer instead of the 
>> minibuffer? If it matters, a "response" is a string of 1-8 alphabetic 
>> characters terminated by a newline/return key.
>
> Nothing built-in, but it should be pretty straightforward to write a 
> command that looks in the buffer to find the response, and bind the 
> Return key to this command.

How about widgets? See (info "widget") for examples and details.

Steve Berman




  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-30 20:46 Input from buffer instead of minibuffer Michael Haensel
2012-10-01  1:10 ` Barry Margolin
2012-10-03 15:45   ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2012-10-04 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-04 13:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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