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From: drain <aeuster@gmail.com>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: reading a variable from the user
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:24:35 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349853875855-266778.post@n5.nabble.com> (raw)

Is there a function that prompts the user in the mini-buffer, matches the
string input with a local variable name, and then returns the variable? 



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             reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-10  7:24 drain [this message]
2012-10-10  9:08 ` reading a variable from the user Francesco Mazzoli
2012-10-10  9:16   ` Tassilo Horn
2012-10-10  9:22     ` horse_rivers
2012-10-10 13:59 ` Doug Lewan
2012-10-10 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2012-10-11  1:09   ` drain
2012-10-11  3:27     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-10-11  6:08       ` PJ Weisberg
2012-10-11  6:50         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-10-11  6:16       ` drain

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