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Re: Going through a list using the minibuffer


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Going through a list using the minibuffer
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 23:02:46 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28)

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-06-13 22:49]:
> Yuri Khan wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> The code looks good to me but the names are perhaps a bit
> cryptic. This is Lisp, not C or Perl mind you...

Let's see (✿╹◡╹)

(defalias 'my 'let*)
(defalias '$input 'completing-read)
(defalias 'print$_ 'message)

(my  (($gkser '("alpha" "beta" "gamma"))
     ($gksel ($input "Choose a Greek letter: " $gkser nil t)))
  (print$_ "gksel %s" $gksel)) ⇒ "gksel beta"


-- 
Jean

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