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Article #9539Re: minibuffer questions
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 15:30
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 15:30
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Joe Keane writes: > I have two questions about using read-from-minibuffer in my Emacs > Lisp routines. First, is there any way to specify where to put the > point in the minibuffer? It always starts at the end of the default > response, which is not what i want. Second, is there any way to > change the minibuffer prompt, without actually calling > exit-minibuffer and recalling read-from-minibuffer with the new > prompt? The answer is "no" to both of these questions, at least conventionally. At gunpoint I could probably manage to get the minibuffer point adjusted with vile kludge involving an asynchronous process. I can't think of any way to the alter the value of the prompt, though.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!talos!kjones From: kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: minibuffer questions Message-ID: <1990Feb7.153059.19557@talos.uu.net> Date: 7 Feb 90 15:30:59 GMT References: <186@nimbus3.UUCP> <1990Feb5.022103.3394@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1998@osc.COM> Reply-To: kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu Lines: 13