From caedd92eef8fe47c3925c12d8e81be911556b38b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Willemsen Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:16:41 +0100 Subject: Update files --- site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs.org | 42 -------------------------------- 1 file changed, 42 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs.org (limited to 'site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs.org') diff --git a/site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs.org b/site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs.org deleted file mode 100644 index e2bff35..0000000 --- a/site/blog/Ask_for_selection_in_emacs.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -#+TITLE: Ask for selection in Emacs -#+DATE: 2012-05-02 21:09:00 -#+TAGS: emacs elisp coding - -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 elisp - (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