branch: master
commit de2e81927b3362b346a6c7063a335448158776a1
Author: Erik Hetzner <[email protected]>
Commit: Erik Hetzner <[email protected]>
Allow % in prompt string
- quote % when passing prompt from ivy-completing-read to ivy-read
- add documentation in ivy-read that all % should be quoted
---
ivy.el | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ivy.el b/ivy.el
index 58b2529..e79bb9a 100644
--- a/ivy.el
+++ b/ivy.el
@@ -770,7 +770,8 @@ Directories come first."
PROMPT is a string to prompt with; normally it ends in a colon
and a space. When PROMPT contains %d, it will be updated with
-the current number of matching candidates.
+the current number of matching candidates. If % appears elsewhere
+in the PROMPT it should be quoted as %%.
See also `ivy-count-format'.
COLLECTION is a list of strings.
@@ -985,7 +986,8 @@ DEF is the default value.
_INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD is ignored for now.
The history, defaults and input-method arguments are ignored for now."
- (ivy-read prompt collection
+ (ivy-read (replace-regexp-in-string "%" "%%" prompt)
+ collection
:predicate predicate
:require-match require-match
:initial-input (if (consp initial-input)
