From c90daec5f4a91cf1041a5a61411d860ea4329ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Willemsen Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:24:54 +0200 Subject: Initial commit --- blog/blog-2012-05-02-2109.org | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/blog-2012-05-02-2109.org (limited to 'blog/blog-2012-05-02-2109.org') diff --git a/blog/blog-2012-05-02-2109.org b/blog/blog-2012-05-02-2109.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..defa8dd --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/blog-2012-05-02-2109.org @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +#+TITLE: Ask for selection in emacs +#+DESCRIPTION: Something I came across + +I came across an email on one of the emacs mailing lists today, where +someone asked how to ask a user for input whilst providing +completions. The first answer he got was to try ~tmm-prompt~, so I +looked into it a little. + +I use ~mu4e~ as my primary email program, but since it isn't designed +(seemingly) for use with multiple accounts I've got some wrapper +functions that set some variables according to my liking and then +start ~mu4e~. This works very well, but it's a pain to have to use +~M-x view-ryu-mail~ or ~M-x view-ninthfloor-mail~ and such, so I wrote +a function to read a string from the minibuffer, which I then bound to +the ~~ key, this turned it into, for example ~ +ryu~ and ~ ninthfloor~ and so on, but this doesn't have any +completion or notification of my options. + +So after looking at ~tmm-prompt~ I came up with the following: + +#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp +(defvar oni:mailbox-map + '(("ryulash.org" . "ryu") + ("ninthfloor" . "ninthfloor")) + "A mailbox map for use with `tmm-prompt'.") + +(defun view-ryu-mail ()...) +(defun view-ninthfloor-mail ()...) + +(defun view-mu () + (interactive) + (let* ((tmm-completion-prompt "Choose a mailbox\n") + (inbox (tmm-prompt oni:mailbox-map))) + (funcall (intern (concat "view-" inbox "-mail"))))) +#+END_SRC + +I've left out the definitions and some mail accounts for brevity. + +~tmm-prompt~ is usually used when using the text-mode menu with ~M-`~, +but it works very well here too. This changes mailbox selection to, +for example ~ r~ or ~ n~. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf