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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: jai-bholeki <jai-bholeki@protonmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Passing arguments to Elisp function
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 21:59:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201101205951.GA6001@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27Zc4XTcUp9g5idYMWflVrx5nikWyVhX9Pk1_S-j1W8cGnNTLSRoYfXjVXKqT1YCycdLN8Lihx85Dheiy7sCf_yJZ_Wxf6EME-JDiFQhjUM=@protonmail.com>

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On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 04:54:55PM +0000, jai-bholeki via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> I have a function gets the beginning and end of a region.
> 
> Is is possible to pass another argument to the function that is a character 'ch'?
> 
> (defun pengo (beg end)
> (interactive "r") ; Specifies Mark and Point, smallest first
> (goto-char beg)
> )

You mean something like this?

  (defun foo (beg end ch)
    (interactive "rRegion:\ncChar:")
    (message "Region: (%d, %d) Char: %c" beg end ch))

(i.e. separate consecutive args in the interactive specification with
a new line, `\n').

Cheers
 - t

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-01 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-01 16:54 Passing arguments to Elisp function jai-bholeki via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 17:44 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 20:59 ` tomas [this message]
2020-11-01 21:03   ` jai-bholeki

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