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Re: Input from buffer instead of minibuffer
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Stephen Berman |
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Re: Input from buffer instead of minibuffer |
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Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:45:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:10:43 -0400 Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <58f60ac7-2407-411c-92ba-13a4550f682a@googlegroups.com>,
> Michael Haensel <mhaensel73@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone -
>>
>> I'm writing a quiz program in Emacs Lisp. The program creates a new frame
>> and
>> buffer for the quiz questions. The quiz then runs something like this:
>>
>> (insert "Please identify: [quiz item]")
>> (setq response
>> (read-from-minibuffer "Please identify: [quiz item]"))
>> ... do stuff based on response
>>
>> This displays the question in the buffer and the minibuffer. The response is
>> read in from the minibuffer. This isn't deal-breakingly bad, but a better
>> design would read the response from the buffer and skip the minibuffer
>> entirely.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to read a response from the buffer instead of the
>> minibuffer? If it matters, a "response" is a string of 1-8 alphabetic
>> characters terminated by a newline/return key.
>
> Nothing built-in, but it should be pretty straightforward to write a
> command that looks in the buffer to find the response, and bind the
> Return key to this command.
How about widgets? See (info "widget") for examples and details.
Steve Berman
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