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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting last-command with arguments
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:33:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130913133344.GK2369@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvob7wrj0n.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 08:42:37AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> I am conditionally repeating the last command from inside an elisp
> >> function.  So I look at `last-command' and decide.  But now I want to
> >> see the original arguments: say the command was, M-2 M-x my-command RET,
> >> then I want to know 2 was passed to `my-command'.  I am not sure how I
> >> can do that.
> > The variable current-prefix-arg has that information.
> 
> Since we're talking about my-command rather than some random command,
> you can simply change my-command to stash its argument in, say,
> my-command--last-args.

Ah!  Did not think about that.  Thank you.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-13 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-13 10:06 Getting last-command with arguments Suvayu Ali
2013-09-13 11:34 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-09-13 12:42   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-13 13:33     ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
2013-09-13 13:10   ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-13 13:58     ` Nicolas Richard
2013-09-14  0:12       ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-09-16 13:34         ` Nicolas Richard

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