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897 B
Org Mode
26 lines
897 B
Org Mode
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#+TITLE: Another way to get a selection
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#+DESCRIPTION: Another thing I came across
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When I was first looking into improving my mailbox selection function
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I was looking at how to just ask the user for input with
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completions. Though now that I came across ~tmm-prompt~ I really
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prefer this way of working, at least in this case.
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However, today another function was mentioned, in response to someone
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pointing out ~org-completing-read~: ~completing-read~. Wow that's a
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far leap.
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Anyway:
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#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
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(completing-read "Your favorite color: "
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'("red" "green" "blue" "yellow"))
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#+END_SRC
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This will ask for user input and provide these options as completions,
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but it won't show a list of options, of provide shortcuts, like
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~tmm-prompt~ does.
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It's good to know these things, and I really should read both the
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emacs manual and the emacs lisp reference manual at some point.
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