Completion using Accept

[p2@porter.asl.dialnet.symbolics.com (Peter Paine)]

    Date: Mon, 6 May 91 12:04 PDT
    From: Freeman@WHITE.SWW.Symbolics.COM (Mark Freeman)

	Date: Mon, 6 May 91 18:04:03 GMT
	From: hull@eola.cs.ucf.edu (Richard Hull)


	   We avre having some trouble getting the complete key to work with an "accept"
	call.  Basically we want to be able to provide a modifiable default to an
	(accept 'string ..) function call.  It seems like to complete key is the way
	to go.  After perusing the sections on dw:completing-from-suggestions and
	dw:suggest, we are more confused than when we started.  Does anyone have any
	ideas how we can implement a modifiable default to accept (without having to
	define new presentation types)?  We are running on 3653 with Genera 8.0 if it
	makes any difference.  Thank you.

	   Richard Hull  UCF AI Labs.

    I'm not sure what you mean by "modifiable default" but perhaps 
    control-meta-Y is what you want.  For example: 

     (accept 'string :default "foo")
     Enter a string [default "foo"]: 

    Now type Control-Meta-Y and "foo" pops in at the end of the accept field
    in modifiable form:

     Enter a string [default "foo"]: foo

I guess that Richard's really tring to avoid defining a new presentation
type. The later is not a big deal and certainly clarifies some of
presentation design binds.

If you have a variable list of potential choices, try looking at Docex:

Show Documentation :ABBREVIATION-FOR Option to DEFINE-PRESENTATION-TYPE