RE: [External] : Continue cycling from a particular element in collection

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On Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023 at 4:04 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> 
wrote:


> > I am using 'completing-read' with INITIAL-INPUT to prefill the minibuffer
> > with the first entry "alpha". Hew can I then start at index k from 
> > collection
> > as the next entry.
> 
> 
> There is NO "next entry". INITIAL-INPUT is simply a string that gets inserted 
> in the minibuffer. It need not correspond to any candidate provided by 
> argument COLLECTION, meaning that it need not correspond to any completion.
> 
> `completing-read' can be LAX, meaning that, if REQUIRE-MATCH is nil or absent 
> then it accepts any text you input - it need not be a completion candidate.

Ok, but can I ask completing-read to start from a different point in 
collection, rather than from the beginning ?