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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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