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#+TITLE: Another way to get a selection
#+DATE: 2012-05-03 10:04:00
#+TAGS: emacs elisp org-mode coding
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.
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