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From: DiGrazia <rjjd@localnet.com>
Subject: From menu button, how run more than one command?
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:53:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FF8E52.7030207@localnet.com> (raw)

I want to have a menu whose buttons each executes something like this:

(cd "c:/blah/")
(find-file) ;Do not specify file; instead, open the Find File window.

That is, I want each button to run "cd" and then "find-file" interactively.

The code below works, but note that the menu button calls function
"abc".  If the menu contains many buttons, each button would need a
dedicated function.

(defvar my-menu (make-sparse-keymap))

(define-key my-menu [rmx]
   '(menu-item "FILE" abc))      ;executes function abc

(defun abc ()
   (interactive)
   (cd "C:/emacs")
   (call-interactively 'find-file)
)

Is there a way to write the "define-key" so that I don't need a separate
function?
Or, is there a way to pass an argument from "menu-item" to a function?

             reply	other threads:[~2006-02-24 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-24 22:53 DiGrazia [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-25  3:07 From menu button, how run more than one command? RD
2006-02-27 13:35 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-03-01 18:51   ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]   ` <mailman.166.1141291544.2835.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-03-02 10:50     ` Mathias Dahl
2006-03-02 16:01     ` Johan Bockgård
2006-03-01  4:47 ` Eli Zaretskii

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