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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Run Non-Interactive Function with Prefix
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:40:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43553390.2050504@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871x2idali.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu>

Kenneth Jacker wrote:

>  lb> Do you mean (foobar ARG), perhaps (foobar t) or (foobar 1)?
>
>No.  The function 'foobar' might or might not require an ARG.  
>
>
>What I want to do is specify a *prefix* before invoking 'foobar'.
>Note that this is independent of whether the function has a required
>argument or not.
>
>I specify this interactively with "C-u", but how to do it *non*-interactively?
>
>  -Kenneth
>  
>
I am not sure I understand (or rather "I am sure I do not understand" ;-)

In the CVS version of Emacs there is information about this Info:

   (elisp) Prefix Command Arguments

Maybe that can help you?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-18 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-18 16:41 Run Non-Interactive Function with Prefix Kenneth Jacker
2005-10-18 16:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-18 17:00   ` Kenneth Jacker
2005-10-18 17:40     ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11763.1129656007.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-18 18:09     ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-10-18 18:37     ` Anselm Helbig
2005-10-18 18:33 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.11782.1129660891.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-21 10:31   ` Kenneth Jacker

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