From: carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: completing-read to set the mode for a buffer
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 02:52:35 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <N6VRPiS--3-2@tutanota.com> (raw)
Am using completing-read to set the mode for a buffer. What would be the advantage of defining modes in the following way, rather than with a normal list with "emacs-lisp-mode", "org-mode", and "sh-script" ?
I use (funcall (intern mode)) to set the mode for the buffer.
(defvar modes
'( ("emacs-lisp-mode" . "el")
("org-mode" . "org")
("sh-script" . "sh")))
(completing-read " Mode: " (map-keys modes) nil t)
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2022-07-09 0:52 carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-07-09 1:51 ` completing-read to set the mode for a buffer Emanuel Berg
2022-07-09 3:42 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-10 4:20 ` Emanuel Berg
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