Re: Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core?

[Kaushal Modi]

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:41 AM Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:

> I'd like to have (kind of) a menu, perhaps in a temporary buffer,
> displaying a list of options and giving a way to select one of them.
> Like, say clocking into one of recently clocked tasks in Org, or the
> main manu in mu4e, or the possible corrections in ispell etc.  It seems
> that a lot of packages use their own mechanism to do something like
> that; now that I think of it, I guess it would be nice to have
> a "canonical" way.  One advantage would be that by customizing this
> "default" way, the user could define his/her preferred way of showing
> the menu/selecting the option for _all_ applications using it.
>
> WDYT?  Is there anything like that in Emacs?


I haven't used it directly. But someone please correct me if I am wrong;
doesn't the inbuilt completing-read already do this?

Packages like ivy.el have ivy-completing-read which conforms to the default
completing-read, and can be easily used to enhance that.
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Kaushal Modi