From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: drain Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: reading a variable from the user Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1349853875855-266778.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349853884 8483 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2012 07:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:24:44 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 10 09:24:51 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TLqeu-0001TB-MC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:24:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54114 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLqeo-0004AQ-Em for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41921) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLqek-0004AL-2z for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:24:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLqej-0003in-3g for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:24:38 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:55239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLqei-0003ij-VL for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.236.26] (helo=sam.nabble.com) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TLqeh-0000FP-WE for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:24:36 -0700 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87145 Archived-At: 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? -- View this message in context: http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/reading-a-variable-from-the-user-tp266778.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.