From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: One-off history for read-string Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:47:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87pp15sxqf.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87y4fwt3vq.fsf@mbork.pl> <87twqjpc9h.fsf@debian.uxu> <87oagrt1d0.fsf@mbork.pl> <87zj0arl88.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443235677 21810 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2015 02:47:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 02:47:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 04:47:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZffWc-0000He-8K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:47:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZffWb-0002Iy-It for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:47:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZffWS-0002Ip-6F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:47:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZffWP-0007zZ-0L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZffWO-0007zP-QD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZffWJ-0008EU-2f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:47:27 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:47:27 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:47:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xV/T+yhj2gci9FCLO82vjDjV8f4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107363 Archived-At: John Mastro 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? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573