Re: HIST to read-from-minibuffer

[Juri Linkov]

> I am trying to read a string with a hist variable. I want the default to
> be the first element of the hist variable and the history to start from
> the SECOND element.
>
> I can seem to get the behaviour I want with '(hist . 1) but not '(hist .
> 2). However the doc string says:
>
>  "positions are counted starting from 1 at the beginning of the list"
>
> This looks contradictory to the behaviour I observed. Is this a mistake
> on my understand or the doc string? Thanks.

Sorry, I don't understand what is contradictory?

(let ((hist '("a" "b" "c")))
  (read-from-minibuffer "Prompt: " nil nil nil '(hist . 2)))

M-p => "c"

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Juri Linkov
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