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(Text from Minibuffer): Document `read-regexp'.

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(Completion Commands, Reading File Names): Rename
`minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map' to
`minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map'.
(Minibuffer Completion): The `require-match' argument to `completing-read'
can now have the value `confirm-only'.
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@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
2008-10-18 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* minibuf.texi (Text from Minibuffer): Document `read-regexp'.
(Completion Commands, Reading File Names): Rename
`minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map' to
`minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map'.
(Minibuffer Completion): The `require-match' argument to
`completing-read' can now have the value `confirm-only'.
* windows.texi (Displaying Buffers): Minor wording fix.
(Choosing Window): `split-height-threshold' can now be nil.
Document `split-width-threshold'. `pop-up-frames' can have the

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@ -101,9 +101,11 @@ was supplied when Emacs was started.
Most often, the minibuffer is used to read text as a string. It can
also be used to read a Lisp object in textual form. The most basic
primitive for minibuffer input is @code{read-from-minibuffer}; it can do
either one. There are also specialized commands for reading
commands, variables, file names, etc. (@pxref{Completion}).
primitive for minibuffer input is @code{read-from-minibuffer}; it can
do either one. Regular expressions (@pxref{Regular Expressions}) are
a special kind of strings; use @code{read-regexp} for their minibuffer
input. There are also specialized commands for reading commands,
variables, file names, etc.@: (@pxref{Completion}).
In most cases, you should not call minibuffer input functions in the
middle of a Lisp function. Instead, do all minibuffer input as part of
@ -201,6 +203,40 @@ This function works by calling the
@end smallexample
@end defun
@defun read-regexp prompt &optional default
This function reads a regular expression as a string from the
minibuffer and returns it. The argument @var{prompt} is used as in
@code{read-from-minibuffer}. The keymap used is
@code{minibuffer-local-map}, and @code{regexp-history} is used as the
history list (@pxref{Minibuffer History, regexp-history}).
The optional argument @var{default}, if non-@code{nil}, specifies a
default value to return if the user enters null input. As
in @code{read-from-minibuffer} it should be a string, a list of
strings, or @code{nil} which is equivalent to an empty string. When
@var{default} is a string, that string is the default value. When it
is a list of strings, the first string is the default value. To this
default @code{read-regexp} adds a few other useful candidates, and
passes them to @code{read-from-minibuffer} to make them available to
the user as the ``future minibuffer history list'' (@pxref{Minibuffer
History, future list,, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}). These
candidates are:
@itemize @minus
@item
The Word or symbol at point.
@item
The last regexp used in an incremental search.
@item
The last string used in an incremental search.
@item
The last string or pattern used in query-replace commands.
@end itemize
This function works by calling the @code{read-from-minibuffer}
function, after computing the list of defaults as described above.
@end defun
@defvar minibuffer-allow-text-properties
If this variable is @code{nil}, then @code{read-from-minibuffer} strips
all text properties from the minibuffer input before returning it.
@ -839,9 +875,12 @@ of test-completion}.
If @var{require-match} is @code{nil}, the exit commands work regardless
of the input in the minibuffer. If @var{require-match} is @code{t}, the
usual minibuffer exit commands won't exit unless the input completes to
an element of @var{collection}. If @var{require-match} is neither
@code{nil} nor @code{t}, then the exit commands won't exit unless the
input already in the buffer matches an element of @var{collection}.
an element of @var{collection}. If @var{require-match} is
@code{confirm-only}, the user can exit with any input, but she will
asked for a confirmation if the input is not an element of
@var{collection}. Any other value of @var{require-match} behaves like
@code{t}, except that the exit commands won't exit if it does non-null
completion.
However, empty input is always permitted, regardless of the value of
@var{require-match}; in that case, @code{completing-read} returns the
@ -1058,7 +1097,7 @@ except that it does not bind @key{SPC}. This keymap is used by the
function @code{read-file-name}.
@end defvar
@defvar minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map
@defvar minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map
This is like @code{minibuffer-local-must-match-map}
except that it does not bind @key{SPC}. This keymap is used by the
function @code{read-file-name}.
@ -1257,7 +1296,7 @@ acceptable.
@code{read-file-name} uses
@code{minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map} as the keymap if
@var{existing} is @code{nil}, and uses
@code{minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map} if @var{existing} is
@code{minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map} if @var{existing} is
non-@code{nil}. @xref{Completion Commands}.
The argument @var{directory} specifies the directory to use for

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@ -1247,10 +1247,12 @@ functions `read-from-minibuffer', `read-string', `read-command',
are available for inserting into the minibuffer by typing `M-n'.
For empty input these functions return the first element of this list.
+++
*** New function `read-regexp' uses the regexp history and some useful
regexp defaults (string at point, last Isearch/replacement regexp/string)
via M-n when reading a regexp in the minibuffer.
+++
*** minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map is now named
minibuffer-local-filename-must-match-map.
@ -1259,6 +1261,7 @@ Since this means the returned list is not properly nil-terminated, this
is an incompatible change and is thus enabled by the new variable
completion-all-completions-with-base-size.
+++
*** The `require-match' argument to `completing-read' accepts a new value
`confirm-only'.