From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98read-string=E2=80=99?= over =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98read-from-minibuffer=E2=80=99?= Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:11:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87czrip6db.fsf@sperrhaken.name> <877dhqoxw6.fsf@sperrhaken.name> <87tukr3y7f.fsf@zoho.eu> <87pmvdfaxc.fsf_-_@sperrhaken.name> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33035"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:QFGnEzHpFtok+V/T/kCdpIp7EuY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 20 17:25:03 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 1m5rcF-0008Mb-69 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60138 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5rcE-00070M-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5rPp-0004rT-Jd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5rPm-0001dx-Og for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m5rPk-0001R5-Rk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:12:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=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:131878 Archived-At: Felix Dietrich [2021-07-20 14:05:03] wrote: > Stefan Monnier writes: >>> (let*((read-result (read-from-minibuffer "Prompt: ")) >> Please don't use `read-from-minibuffer` unless you're defining >> a `read-` function. >> Use `read-string` instead. > > Could you elaborate? `read-from-minibuffer` is the function designed as the core of `read-string`, `read-number`, `completing-read`, and friends. If you want to write such a `read-` function, then `read-from-minibuffer` is for you. If you want to just read a *string*, then `read-string` is what you should use. It doesn't behave very differently from `read-from-minibuffer`, but it makes your code's intentions more clear. Stefan