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Re: ido-completing-read and substrings of choices
From: |
Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: ido-completing-read and substrings of choices |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:52:51 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2013-04-02 19:49 +0800, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> It seems that it is not possible to input a string that is a substring
>> of some candidate, even if require-match is nil:
>>
>> (ido-completing-read "Choose: " '("abc" "xyz") nil nil)
>>
>> How could the user input "ab" on the command above?
>
> C-j
Thanks Leo. Nico already answered this.
The documentation on ido.el is centered around selecting files and
buffers. However, ido-mode is so convenient that more and more people
are using ido-completing-read as a replacement for completing-read on
lots of contexts. IMHO ido-completing-read deserves move visibility on
the documentation at the top of ido.el or, better, explain the general
goal of ido-mode starting from ido-completing-read and present file and
buffer selection as specific applications.
Thanks again.