From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>,
Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core?
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 22:06:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvnlers6.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6015216-8332-44af-b88e-1575e4b0c198@default>
On 2016-05-09, at 20:16, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> (ask-user-for-option "What would you like to eat?" '("spam" "ham" "eggs"))
>
> So this has nothing to do with Emacs _options_.
>
> You are asking how to present some choices to a user for
> selection.
Yes, sorry for the confusion.
I went with this code:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun select-choice (message choices)
"Display a buffer with MESSAGE and then CHOICES.
Each element of CHOICES should be a cons cell, whose car is the
result and the cdr is the description. The user may select one
by pressing a digit."
;; TODO: This function is way too simple and not fool-proof!
(if (> (length choices) 9)
(error "Too many choices!")
(save-window-excursion
(pop-to-buffer " *amsrefs doi selection*" t t)
(delete-other-windows) ; TODO: this should be fixed
(erase-buffer)
(insert message "\n\n")
(let ((i 0))
(dolist (choice choices)
(setq i (1+ i))
(insert (format "%d. %s\n\n" i (cdr choice)))))
(let ((key (read-key)))
(if (<= 49 key 57)
(car (nth (- key 49) choices))
(error "Wrong key pressed!"))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
As it is said in the comment, it is far from ideal, but the whole
program I've been writing for my friend is one big quick hack, so
I didn't bother too much.
Still, it would be really nice if Emacs offered a canonical (and
configurable) way to do things like that.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-19 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 10:09 Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core? Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 15:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 16:37 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-09 17:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 17:27 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 18:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-19 20:06 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-05-20 1:16 ` John Mastro
2016-05-20 23:52 ` John Mastro
2016-05-21 20:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 18:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2016-05-14 4:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-21 20:49 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-14 4:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-21 20:52 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.43.1463863961.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-22 6:32 ` Emanuel Berg
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