RE: pymacs & interactivel isp functions

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 09:37 -0800, Drew Adams wrote:
> > (setq collection (edsquery-return-addresslist "matt"))
> > 
> > which assigns this value to collection:
> > ("Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>" ...)
> > 
> > my problem comes with a test function that triesto use the 
> > results of a query as a collection for tab-completion:
> > 
> > (defun matt/external-addressbook-completion (stub)
> > "get a list of addresses for tab-completion in a new email"
> >   (interactive (list (completing-read "Name: "
> > (edsquery-return-addresslist (string))
> > ;;                                collection
> >     


> You used (string), which calls string with an empty list of args, so it
> concatenates all zero of those together into the empty string, "".

> > to me it seems that the completion function isn't being sent the input
> > string.
> 
> What input string? You're passing (string), which is "", not any input string.
> 
thanks drew.  i don't know why i thought that similar syntax had worked
in an earlier case -- clearly it must not have.  this was very helpful
and now i am very close.  

i now have the following completion code:

(defun matt/external-addressbook-completion (stub)
  (interactive (list (completing-read "Name: "
                                      #'edsquery-return-addresslist 
                                      nil t))))
when called interactively, it _does_ suggest the first option in the
list that python returns, but it also gives me the following error:

ad-Orig-minibuffer-complete: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p,
("Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>" "Matthew Garrett
<mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>" "Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>" "Matt
Fontaine <Matty_fontaine@hotmail.com>" "Matt Wilks
<matt@madhaus.cns.utoronto.ca>" "Matthew Yates <myatesmyates@yahoo.com>"
"Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>" "Matthew Vermeulen
<MattVermeulen@gmail.com>" "Matthew East <matt@mdke.org>" "matthewreedy
<matthewreedy@yahoo.com>" ...)

i'm not sure, but it looks like it isn't breaking the cdr cell down into
its components before evaluating it? suggesting to me that, again,
there's something wrong with my syntax.  

i appreciatethe remedial lisp lessons.  sorry to just continue not
getting it... thanks again,
matt