Re: Fwd: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt

[Laurent Hoeltgen]

On 07/08/2012 05:36 PM, Whitfield Diffie wrote:
>     I haven't had any response to this message.  Is this simply that
> no one knew the answer or that I am sending it to the wrong place.
> Would someone please acknowledge receipt?
> 
>                    Whit
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Whitfield Diffie <the.whitfield.diffie@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:25 AM
> Subject: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> 
>     I am trying to write an interactive function that prompts for a
> filename, placing point at the end of the prompt and mark somewhere
> earlier in the path.  For example, I would like to be prompted:
> 
>         ~/notes-directory/2012.05.17/
>                                       ^                  ^
>                                       |                   |
>                                  mark             point
> 
> so that if I type a <cr> I get today's notes directory but if I type
> <c-x><c-x><c-k><cr>, I get the overall notes directory.
> 
>     It is certainly possible to get to this state by hand.  From
> today's notes directory, I can type <c-x><c-f> and get the prompt
> 
>         Find file: ~/notes-directory/2012.05.17/
> 
> if I now move the cursor back to just before 2012, set the mark and
> move the cursor to the end of the line, I am in the right state.
> 
>     I can also manage to set the arguments to read-file-name in such a
> way that the point is somewhere in the middle of the prompt but what I
> want is to have the point at the end and the mark in the middle.
> 
> 
>     I hope I am writing to the right place.  I have received some
> wonderful help on some occasions in the past and silence on others.
> 
>                           Many thanks,
> 
>                                                 Whit
> 

Hi,

Your message has arrived. Unfortunately, I can't really help you. Maybe
somebody else can.

Regards,
Laurent