From: Joakim Hove <hove@bccs.no>
Subject: Re: macro with argument
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:33:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4yk7706qbu.fsf@skjellgran.ii.uib.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x5ekx82kba.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> how can I write "macros with arguments"?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> [Me:] M-x my_macro
>> [Emacs:] your argument:
>> [Me:] foo
>>
>> Then emacs should print e.g.
>>
>> bla foo blo
>
> (defun my_macro (string) (interactive "syour argument: ") (message
> "bla %s blo" string))
I.e. - write a small e-lisp function to achieve what you want, and not
a conventional macro. Check the documentation of the special form
(interactive )
C-h f interactive
too see how the argument is read from you.
HTH - Joakim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-20 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-20 11:16 macro with argument Joerg Schuster
2003-10-20 11:57 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-20 12:33 ` Joakim Hove [this message]
2003-10-20 13:16 ` Joerg Schuster
2003-10-20 13:20 ` Joakim Hove
2003-10-20 13:48 ` Joerg Schuster
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