Re: Going through a list using the minibuffer

[Yuri Khan]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 at 23:02, <arvid-harnack@lavache.com> wrote:
>
> Using the command you described, how can I get tho selection into a variable
> named "sel" ?
>
> (completing-read "Choose a Greek letter: " '("alpha" "beta" "gamma") nil t)
>
> Is like this good?
>
>   (let* ((gkser '("alpha" "beta" "gamma"))
>          (gksel (completing-read
>                  "Choose a Greek letter: " gkser nil t)))
>     (message "gksel %s" gksel))

Have you tried it? Does it work the way you want? If you have and it
does, why are you asking me?