On Fri Dec 28 2012 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > rewrite. But I believe it does not (yet?) offer completion when the > > result of the completion is supposed to be a list of values. > > IIUC completing-read-multiple should do what you want (and has been > included in Emacs for a while, at least since Emacs-22 if not longer).
The keymap used by completing-read-multiple binds SPC to crm-complete-word. For users not expecting completion, this has two consequence that might appear counterintuitive: - If one string in the list of return values is supposed to contain the SPC character (which I do not find unusual in the context of, say, the organization field of BBDB), this requires C-q SPC. - In BBDB, the list of organizations is displayed with the two-character string ", " as separator. Likewise, this list of organizations is generated from the return value of read-string using split-string with separator "[ \t\n]*[;,][ \t\n]*". Such regexps are not supported by crm-separator. (The latter must be a single character string). I still believe that completing-read-multiple is a cool feature and I might like to use it myself for entering organizations into BBDB. Yet I do not know whether all users will be happy with this feature in the context of BBDB's organization field. So it might be better to make it customizable whether BBDB uses read-string or completing-read-multiple. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
