Re: One-off history for read-string

[Emanuel Berg]

John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:

>     (defvar readonly-history)
>
>     (defun get-history-list-from-server ()
>       ;; Imagine we fetch this list of HTTP
>       (list "foo" "bar" "baz" "quux"))
>
>     (defun my-read-string (prompt)
>       (let ((readonly-history (get-history-list-from-server)))
>         (read-string prompt nil 'readonly-history)))

And one would do that because...?

Besides, isn't that "remote history" or "client-server
history" or "distributed history" rather than
"readonly history"?

And how will the history be assembled if it is only
clients that fetch it and then never add to it?

And again, what is the purpose of all this?

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