From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One-off history for read-string
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:47:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp15sxqf.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAOj2CQSm6OOxowx0BNC7pdezZYoK8LyfB7Obk+-dHxd9byXOwA@mail.gmail.com
John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:
> (defvar readonly-history)
>
> (defun get-history-list-from-server ()
> ;; Imagine we fetch this list of HTTP
> (list "foo" "bar" "baz" "quux"))
>
> (defun my-read-string (prompt)
> (let ((readonly-history (get-history-list-from-server)))
> (read-string prompt nil 'readonly-history)))
And one would do that because...?
Besides, isn't that "remote history" or "client-server
history" or "distributed history" rather than
"readonly history"?
And how will the history be assembled if it is only
clients that fetch it and then never add to it?
And again, what is the purpose of all this?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-26 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-24 12:10 One-off history for read-string Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-24 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-24 16:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-24 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-25 0:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-25 7:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-26 2:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-26 2:33 ` John Mastro
2015-09-26 2:47 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2015-09-26 7:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27 1:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-27 6:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27 23:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-28 0:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-26 7:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
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