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From: Joakim Hove <hove@bccs.no>
Subject: Re: macro with argument
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:20:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4yptgs59l7.fsf@skjellgran.ii.uib.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: crt4qy4rqv4.fsf@pinatubo.cis.uni-muenchen.de


Joerg Schuster <js@cis.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> (defun my_macro (string) (interactive "syour argument: ") (message
>> "bla %s blo" string))
>
> This prints "bla [argument] blo" in the mini buffer. I wanted Emacs to
> print it in the active (?) buffer, i.e. in the buffer from which I
> call the function. 

Replace the (message ) function with (insert ):

  (insert (format "bla %s blo" string))

HTH - Joakim



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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-20 13:20 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
2003-10-20 13:16   ` Joerg Schuster
2003-10-20 13:20     ` Joakim Hove [this message]
2003-10-20 13:48       ` Joerg Schuster

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