#+TITLE: Another way to get a selection
#+DESCRIPTION: Another thing I came across

When I was first looking into improving my mailbox selection function
I was looking at how to just ask the user for input with
completions. Though now that I came across ~tmm-prompt~ I really
prefer this way of working, at least in this case.

However, today another function was mentioned, in response to someone
pointing out ~org-completing-read~: ~completing-read~. Wow that's a
far leap.

Anyway:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(completing-read "Your favorite color: "
                 '("red" "green" "blue" "yellow"))
#+END_SRC

This will ask for user input and provide these options as completions,
but it won't show a list of options, of provide shortcuts, like
~tmm-prompt~ does.

It's good to know these things, and I really should read both the
emacs manual and the emacs lisp reference manual at some point.