From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to travel into the future?
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:05:48 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8XpZNbPDtLakZwFkjjb7-LmDRsqupUOTXerpE=TBoyAPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zihpgnki.fsf@mbork.pl>
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
> I'd like to use in my code the M-n facility in history to enable the
> user to have access to a reasonable default value, as described in
> (info "(emacs) Minibuffer History").
> How should I do it? Should I use read-string? If so, do I have to put
> the default into the history variable and use the (HISTVAR . POSITION)
> argument to read-string? If so, should I then manually delete the
> default (which might have been used or not by the user) from the history
> variable afterwards?
As far as I understand: (describe-function 'read-string)
Fourth arg DEFAULT-VALUE is the default value or the list of default values.
If non-nil, it is used for history commands, and as the value (or the first
element of the list of default values) to return if the user enters the
empty string.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-14 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-14 8:54 How to travel into the future? Marcin Borkowski
2017-02-14 9:05 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2017-02-14 14:39 ` Drew Adams
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