From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going through a list using the minibuffer Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 23:02:46 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87tum1lf5c.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24402"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 22:08:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lsWOw-00068Q-1K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:08:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51580 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsWOu-0001Qv-Ur for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsWOb-0001Ql-Hy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:54197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lsWOZ-00080o-Q9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.23]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000D5A4C.0000000060C66590.00006D1D; Sun, 13 Jun 2021 13:07:44 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tum1lf5c.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130799 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2021-06-13 22:49]: > Yuri Khan wrote: > > >> Is like this good? > >> > >> (let* ((gkser '("alpha" "beta" "gamma")) > >> (gksel (completing-read > >> "Choose a Greek letter: " gkser nil t))) > >> (message "gksel %s" gksel)) > > > > Have you tried it? Does it work the way you want? If you > > have and it does, why are you asking me? > > The code looks good to me but the names are perhaps a bit > cryptic. This is Lisp, not C or Perl mind you... Let's see (✿╹◡╹) (defalias 'my 'let*) (defalias '$input 'completing-read) (defalias 'print$_ 'message) (my (($gkser '("alpha" "beta" "gamma")) ($gksel ($input "Choose a Greek letter: " $gkser nil t))) (print$_ "gksel %s" $gksel)) ⇒ "gksel beta" -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/