From 03b1cb67ec523fba5102075e17d8d1030df3ff6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Willemsen Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:12:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add "Another way to get a selection" archive post --- posts/Another_way_to_get_a_selection.mdwn | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/Another_way_to_get_a_selection.mdwn diff --git a/posts/Another_way_to_get_a_selection.mdwn b/posts/Another_way_to_get_a_selection.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ebdc186 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/Another_way_to_get_a_selection.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +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: + +[[!format el """ +(completing-read "Your favorite color: " + '("red" "green" "blue" "yellow")) +"""]] + +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. + +[[!meta date="2012-05-03 10:04:00"]] +[[!tag emacs elisp org-mode coding]]