From: Whitfield Diffie <the.whitfield.diffie@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:25:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOgUEJLZ+yPznsVRw-5LFO02gEXMBsp9KXhFO_KwSNHWQkjJng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I am trying to write an interactive function that prompts for a
filename, placing point at the end of the prompt and mark somewhere
earlier in the path. For example, I would like to be prompted:
~/notes-directory/2012.05.17/
^ ^
| |
mark point
so that if I type a <cr> I get today's notes directory but if I type
<c-x><c-x><c-k><cr>, I get the overall notes directory.
It is certainly possible to get to this state by hand. From
today's notes directory, I can type <c-x><c-f> and get the prompt
Find file: ~/notes-directory/2012.05.17/
if I now move the cursor back to just before 2012, set the mark and
move the cursor to the end of the line, I am in the right state.
I can also manage to set the arguments to read-file-name in such a
way that the point is somewhere in the middle of the prompt but what I
want is to have the point at the end and the mark in the middle.
I hope I am writing to the right place. I have received some
wonderful help on some occasions in the past and silence on others.
Many thanks,
Whit
next reply other threads:[~2012-05-17 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-17 15:25 Whitfield Diffie [this message]
2012-07-08 15:36 ` Fwd: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt Whitfield Diffie
2012-07-08 16:15 ` Laurent Hoeltgen
2012-07-08 16:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-07-08 17:18 ` Whitfield Diffie
2012-07-08 20:21 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-07-08 17:06 ` Drew Adams
2012-07-08 17:54 ` Whitfield Diffie
2012-07-08 18:07 ` how to customize `read-passwd' [was: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt] Drew Adams
2012-07-11 4:44 ` Whitfield Diffie
[not found] <mailman.1294.1337271903.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-05-18 10:57 ` Setting mark in minibuffer prompt José A. Romero L.
2012-05-18 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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