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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: use of read
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:07:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4782A288.2070406@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lk71b8dy.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org>

Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
> 
>> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello, i use the function (read) to fill a list interactively.
>>> the prompt is "Lisp expression:" , is it possible to have another prompt?
>>> Thank you in advance.
>> This string is hardcoded in the C source code for this function.  So I
>> think it's not possible to modify it.
> 
> Thanks,
> no over function to get a variable interactively ?(not with interactive)

Maybe this can help?

(defun read2 (lisp)
   (interactive "xGive me some lisp: ")
   lisp)

(call-interactively 'read2)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-07 20:30 use of read Thierry Volpiatto
2008-01-07 21:23 ` Bastien
2008-01-07 22:03   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-01-07 22:07     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-01-07 22:48       ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found] <mailman.5851.1199737426.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-07 21:48 ` thorne
2008-01-07 22:58   ` Thierry Volpiatto

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