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1.6 KiB
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42 lines
1.6 KiB
Org Mode
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#+TITLE: Ask for selection in emacs
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#+DESCRIPTION: Something I came across
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I came across an email on one of the emacs mailing lists today, where
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someone asked how to ask a user for input whilst providing
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completions. The first answer he got was to try ~tmm-prompt~, so I
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looked into it a little.
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I use ~mu4e~ as my primary email program, but since it isn't designed
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(seemingly) for use with multiple accounts I've got some wrapper
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functions that set some variables according to my liking and then
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start ~mu4e~. This works very well, but it's a pain to have to use
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~M-x view-ryu-mail~ or ~M-x view-ninthfloor-mail~ and such, so I wrote
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a function to read a string from the minibuffer, which I then bound to
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the ~<XF86Mail>~ key, this turned it into, for example ~<XF86Mail>
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ryu~ and ~<XF86Mail> ninthfloor~ and so on, but this doesn't have any
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completion or notification of my options.
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So after looking at ~tmm-prompt~ I came up with the following:
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#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
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(defvar oni:mailbox-map
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'(("ryulash.org" . "ryu")
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("ninthfloor" . "ninthfloor"))
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"A mailbox map for use with `tmm-prompt'.")
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(defun view-ryu-mail ()...)
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(defun view-ninthfloor-mail ()...)
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(defun view-mu ()
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(interactive)
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(let* ((tmm-completion-prompt "Choose a mailbox\n")
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(inbox (tmm-prompt oni:mailbox-map)))
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(funcall (intern (concat "view-" inbox "-mail")))))
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#+END_SRC
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I've left out the definitions and some mail accounts for brevity.
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~tmm-prompt~ is usually used when using the text-mode menu with ~M-`~,
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but it works very well here too. This changes mailbox selection to,
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for example ~<XF86Mail> r~ or ~<XF86Mail> n~.
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