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Re: Fwd: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt
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Laurent Hoeltgen |
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Re: Fwd: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt |
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Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:15:02 +0200 |
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On 07/08/2012 05:36 PM, Whitfield Diffie wrote:
> I haven't had any response to this message. Is this simply that
> no one knew the answer or that I am sending it to the wrong place.
> Would someone please acknowledge receipt?
>
> Whit
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Whitfield Diffie <the.whitfield.diffie@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:25 AM
> Subject: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
>
> I am trying to write an interactive function that prompts for a
> filename, placing point at the end of the prompt and mark somewhere
> earlier in the path. For example, I would like to be prompted:
>
> ~/notes-directory/2012.05.17/
> ^ ^
> | |
> mark point
>
> so that if I type a <cr> I get today's notes directory but if I type
> <c-x><c-x><c-k><cr>, I get the overall notes directory.
>
> It is certainly possible to get to this state by hand. From
> today's notes directory, I can type <c-x><c-f> and get the prompt
>
> Find file: ~/notes-directory/2012.05.17/
>
> if I now move the cursor back to just before 2012, set the mark and
> move the cursor to the end of the line, I am in the right state.
>
> I can also manage to set the arguments to read-file-name in such a
> way that the point is somewhere in the middle of the prompt but what I
> want is to have the point at the end and the mark in the middle.
>
>
> I hope I am writing to the right place. I have received some
> wonderful help on some occasions in the past and silence on others.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Whit
>
Hi,
Your message has arrived. Unfortunately, I can't really help you. Maybe
somebody else can.
Regards,
Laurent