Re: Fwd: Choosing interactively from a list (starting off at any position)

[John Mastro]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> But your solution works perfectly - thanks a lot for your ideas!! I
>> would still like to understand why it works, though. ;-)
>
> It works for the reason you conjectured: you are supplying the same
> list for the completion candidates and for the history.  And as you
> mentioned, the history should be a variable (a symbol), in this case
> `choose-from-list-history'.  There's nothing else to understand.

But (info "(elisp) Variable Scoping") may be of interest.

-- 
john