Re: read-command, read-variable, read-buffer implemented in C

[Stefan Monnier]

> I guess it is an historical artifact due to performance concerns, but
> now it doesn't make much sense anymore, right?

Indeed.

> Some extensions need to jump through hoops because of this. For using
> Ido (almost) everywhere it would be enough to advise `completing-read',
> which is what those functions end using, but as advices are not
> effective for functions defined in C when they are called from other C
> functions, extensions such as ido-hacks are forced to advise the
> functions that call read-*, which is quite a hassle.

We introduced completing-read-function for that.


        Stefan