Questions tagged [completing-read]
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How can I modify the prompt of another command?
How can I modify the prompt of another interactive command without copy-pasting too much?
Can I override only the interactive form?
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Initial input for completing-read
With the following function using "completing-read", how can one add a default initial input to be Convert. What can I do?
(defun subset ()
"Convert or extract subsets of data."
(interactive)
(let* ( (opts '("Convert" "Split"))
(sel…
Dilna
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User input - How to use predefined list
While there are org-templates creating entire bullet points with content, what I am looking for is a simple user query (similar to read-string) where the user can use a pre-defined list of words/phrases to choose from (up/down or left/right arrow…
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Close completing-read dialog before continuing
I've written an elisp script to automate the process of taking screenshots. The script uses maim and imgur.sh. Not really important however. Here is the code:
;;; ../../.local/share/git/dotArch/.config/doom/userconfig/screenshot.el -*-…
Artemios Antonio Balbach
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How to include buffer-file-name in completing-read
I can use completing-read to choose from several items like this:
(completing-read
"Complete a foo: "
'(("apple" 1) ("barfoo" 2) ("elk" 3) ("foobar2" 4)) ;; collection of choices
nil t )
But the example below does not show the value of…
Kevin Wright
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