From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [gmane.emacs.help] Info-mode and ido Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:06:29 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87tzinn762.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87ej9s6lta.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206918469 8987 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 23:07:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:07:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Olson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 01:08:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jg6dI-0004I4-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg6cg-0007qN-06 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg6cV-0007m9-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg6cS-0007jf-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg6cS-0007jQ-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg6cO-0002bY-I3; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg6cG-0001My-4E; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:07:14 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87ej9s6lta.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> (Michael Olson's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:42:09 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 69470ef176344869aa12c1af2e75e870 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2455 [Mar 21 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93983 Archived-At: >> ,----[ Info-menu ] >> | (completing-read (if default >> | (format "Menu item (default %s): " >> | default) >> | "Menu item: ") >> | 'Info-complete-menu-item nil t) >> `---- >> >> I'm thinking that I need to replace completing-read with >> ido-completing-read. I have read docstring of completing-read, but >> still can't figure it out how does it work when `collection' is >> function, in here, 'Info-complete-menu-buffer. > > It would be best if a new customizable option called > `Info-completing-read-function' were defined, with 'completing-read as > its default value. Then the code could just do: > > (funcall Info-completing-read-function ...) > > I do this in all of the Emacs Lisp code I touch which uses > completing-read. I think it would be better to create a new `completing-read-function' variable like already existing `read-file-name-function' and `read-buffer-function'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/