From: jan <janmar@iprimus.com.au>
Subject: Re: Question to completion
Date: 09 Nov 2003 11:04:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uy8up1hzb.fsf@iprimus.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <usmkzvx8p.fsf@sdm.de>
Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de> writes:
> Suppose i have s command like follows:
>
> (defun offer-some-choices ()
> (interactive)
> (completing-read "Select a name: " '(("Klaus" . t) ("Berndl" . t))))
>
> Then this displays in the minibuffer "Select a name: " and then wait
> for input from the user.
>
> How can i achieve that always - *without* the user has to hit TAB -
> the possible completions are displayed immediately? Or with other
> words: How to simulate that the user has already pressed TAB as
> often as necessary to display all possible completions? Best would
> be if the longest common substring of all possible completions is
> displayed immediately in the minibuffer (OK, this i could precompute
> with `try-completion' and then insert as argument INITIAL-INPUT -
> but AFAIK this is deprecated?!).
>
> But most important is that the user has not to hit any key to see
> all possible completions. How to do this with completing-read - or
> is there a better way to do this?
>
> What i want is to (mis?)use the completion-feature of Emacs to offer
> the user some choices which he can select either via mouse or via
> keyboard from the minibuffer.
`icomplete-mode' might be a good starting point.
--
jan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-09 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-08 12:52 Question to completion Klaus Berndl
2003-11-08 14:14 ` Klaus Berndl
2003-11-09 14:36 ` Ehud Karni
[not found] ` <mailman.73.1068392321.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-09 17:21 ` Klaus Berndl
2003-11-10 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-09 19:04 ` jan [this message]
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