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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Cc: 64584@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64584: 29.0.91; skeleton: cannot pass `str' as argument to some functions
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:52:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvledc6ct7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1jloyao.fsf@gmail.com> (Visuwesh's message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:35:35 +0530")

> In a skeleton template, it is not possible to pass `str' as an argument
> to some functions.

It is, but only after it appeared "naked" in the skeleton.

`skeleton-insert` says:

	str	first time: read a string according to INTERACTOR
		then: insert previously read string once more

which indeed doesn't explicitly tell you tht you're doing something
wrong, but it does imply that `str` doesn't just hold a string, or at
least not initially.

>     (define-skeleton test-skeleton ""
>       (file-relative-name (read-file-name "P: "))
>       (shell-quote-argument str))

It should work if you can change your skeleton to something like:

    (define-skeleton test-skeleton ""
      (file-relative-name (read-file-name "P: "))
      str
      (shell-quote-argument str))

where that first use of `str` will convert it from something that "read
a string according to INTERACTOR" to the actual string.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-11 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-12 17:05 bug#64584: 29.0.91; skeleton: cannot pass `str' as argument to some functions Visuwesh
2023-09-11 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-09-11 15:20   ` Visuwesh
2023-09-11 22:12     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-12  2:36       ` Visuwesh
2023-09-12  3:06         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-12 12:24           ` Visuwesh
2023-09-12 13:08             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-12 14:50               ` Visuwesh

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