From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another lisp question
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:58:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC8A53E.8000509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC890FF.5080803@t-online.de>
On Friday 16 April 2010 09:31 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
> Drew Adams wrote:
>> (defun mytest (n)
>> " Test"
>> ; (interactive "nEnter number: ")
>> (interactive (list (read-number "Enter number: ")))
>> (message "%d was entered" n))
>>
>> With both versions of the interactive statement I have the
>> same effect: the prompt comes back as long as I do not enter anything.
>>
>> I am running emacs22 on Debian lenny.
>> Do I need a special setting to achive what I want?
>>
>> You said you wanted to use the default value if the user hit Return
>> with typing
>> anything first. For that, use (read-number "Number: " MY-DEFAULT), as I
>> suggested before.
>>
>>
> OK; I did not really understand why you had that 42 in your code.
> It works.
> Thank you.
I believe its the answer to the ultimate question? ;)
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-15 16:13 Another lisp question Klaus Jantzen
2010-04-15 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-04-16 9:40 ` Klaus Jantzen
2010-04-16 13:54 ` Drew Adams
2010-04-16 16:31 ` Klaus Jantzen
2010-04-16 17:58 ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
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