From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completing-read: obarray/alist okay, hash-table not?
Date: 03 Apr 2002 09:46:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y9g4algu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204030456.g334ufI11887@aztec.santafe.edu>
> * In message <200204030456.g334ufI11887@aztec.santafe.edu>
> * On the subject of "Re: completing-read: obarray/alist okay, hash-table not?"
> * Sent on Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:56:41 -0700 (MST)
> * Honorable Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> why completing-read (and try-completion, all-completions &c) accept
> obarray/alist as the second arg, but do not accept a hash table?
>
> Nobody has updated it since hash tables were added to Emacs.
> Do you want to implement allowing a hash table?
I prefer writing lisp, and this will have to be done in C.
I would rather see this done by someone who knows the Emacs
implementation of hash tables better.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-02 17:04 completing-read: obarray/alist okay, hash-table not? Sam Steingold
2002-04-03 4:56 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-03 14:46 ` Sam Steingold [this message]
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