From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Selecting default prompt text Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:53:36 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234407259 14256 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2009 02:54:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:54:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 03:55:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LXRjf-0006gG-TN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:55:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48705 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXRiL-0002AL-Qi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXRi4-0002AE-1J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:53:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXRi2-0002A2-Du for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:53:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36042 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXRi2-00029z-Aa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56436 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXRi1-00004s-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LXRhy-0004Jy-Bb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:53:46 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:53:46 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:53:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62073 Archived-At: Richard Riley wrote: > I like my interactive functions to generally use the word or region at > point as a default. Is there a way to make the read-string mini buffer > input to pre-select the default value? > > e.g > > consider > > (setq url (read-string (format "Url (%s) :" url) url nil url)) > > Here I would like to see at the input prompt > > Url (xyz): xyz > > with the default value of "xyz" already selected. In other words > the same behaviour as when you tab into a populated entry field in most > of applications. (let ((url-at-point (thing-at-point 'url))) (read-string (if url-at-point (format "URL (%s): " url-at-point) "URL: ") nil nil url-at-point)) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA