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Re: How to read an integer from the minibuffer
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: How to read an integer from the minibuffer |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:18:28 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 28.0.50 |
On 2021-11-11, at 06:11, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> I'd like to read an integer (or something else e.g. matching a regex)
>> from a minibuffer. Basically, I'm after a version of `read-string', but
>> either allowing only some characters, or accepting only input matching
>> some regex (possibly both).
>>
>> How do I do that? One way would be to use `read-from-minibuffer' with
>> a suitable keymap, but that seems slightly low-level. If that is the
>> way to go, is there a good way to set up a keymap so that nothing except
>> some specified characters are self-inserting? IOW, is `suppress-keymap'
>> the way to go or is there some other way?
>>
>> TIA,
>
> Perhaps you're looking for `read-number'?
Thanks, that is nice, but not very general. Another value I want to
read is a time in the hh:mm format, for example.
Thanks anyway,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
Re: How to read an integer from the minibuffer, Emanuel Berg, 2021/11/11
Re: How to read an integer from the minibuffer, Gregory Heytings, 2021/11/11