* Extra arg in interactive?
@ 2007-07-06 9:45 zslevin
2007-07-07 13:06 ` Richard Stallman
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From: zslevin @ 2007-07-06 9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
I find it handy in string input to use the region string if it is active, or
read from user if it is not.
So I usually have:
(interactive "Mphrase: \n")
replaced with:
(interactive (list (or (and mark-active
transient-mark-mode
(buffer-substring-no-properties
(region-beginning)
(region-end)))
(read-string "phrase: "))))
If an extra arg in interactive does this as well, that saves lots of work.
Thank you
-Levin
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* Re: Extra arg in interactive?
2007-07-06 9:45 Extra arg in interactive? zslevin
@ 2007-07-07 13:06 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2007-07-07 13:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zslevin; +Cc: emacs-devel
I find it handy in string input to use the region string if it is active, or
read from user if it is not.
For some commands, this could be natural. But there are commands
for which it doesn't make sense, such as write-region.
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