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From: Greg Rowe <usenet@therowes.net>
Subject: Re: user-input ?
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:57:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42a08c68$0$3718$39cecf19@news.twtelecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878y1rh06n.fsf@madamex.madamex.dk>

Mads Jensen wrote:

> I am a elisp newbie, who is trying to write a basic major mode. For
> this, I need to read some input from the user, but I was not able to
> find anything about that, in the elisp manual. Can anyone please tell me
> how? Thank you.

Check out the help for 'interactive'.  This is a link to the relevant 
section in the elisp manual:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp-manual/html_mono/elisp.html#SEC288

A very basic example of a function that requests user input in the form 
of a string:

(defun my-example (arg)
	"Example of getting user input"
	(interactive "sEnter a string: ")
	(insert arg))

Greg

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-03 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-03 16:31 user-input ? Mads Jensen
2005-06-03 16:57 ` Greg Rowe [this message]
2005-06-03 17:00 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-06-03 17:02 ` Drew Adams

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