From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Input from buffer instead of minibuffer
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:10:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-941723.21104330092012@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 58f60ac7-2407-411c-92ba-13a4550f682a@googlegroups.com
In article <58f60ac7-2407-411c-92ba-13a4550f682a@googlegroups.com>,
Michael Haensel <mhaensel73@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone -
>
> I'm writing a quiz program in Emacs Lisp. The program creates a new frame and
> buffer for the quiz questions. The quiz then runs something like this:
>
> (insert "Please identify: [quiz item]")
> (setq response
> (read-from-minibuffer "Please identify: [quiz item]"))
> ... do stuff based on response
>
> This displays the question in the buffer and the minibuffer. The response is
> read in from the minibuffer. This isn't deal-breakingly bad, but a better
> design would read the response from the buffer and skip the minibuffer
> entirely.
>
> Is there an easy way to read a response from the buffer instead of the
> minibuffer? If it matters, a "response" is a string of 1-8 alphabetic
> characters terminated by a newline/return key.
Nothing built-in, but it should be pretty straightforward to write a
command that looks in the buffer to find the response, and bind the
Return key to this command.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-01 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-30 20:46 Input from buffer instead of minibuffer Michael Haensel
2012-10-01 1:10 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2012-10-03 15:45 ` Stephen Berman
2012-10-04 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-04 13:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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