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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to exit function from inside its `interactive' call?
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:12:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738d9s4p0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6eef87dc-82d7-44ae-b056-c8213a55999c@default

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> how can I use catch/throw (or whatever) to exit function foo from inside
>> its 'interactive call? All combinations I tried so far only exit
>> 'interactive and still execute the function body.
>
> (defun bar ()
>   (interactive (top-level))
>   (message "aaaaaaaaa"))
>
> (defun foo ()
>   (interactive
>    (throw 'top-level 'HELLO))
>   (message "JJJJJJJJJJJJJJ"))


That works, thanks!
Did not know about `top-level'. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-06 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-06 19:38 How to exit function from inside its `interactive' call? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-08-06 19:47 ` Drew Adams
2014-08-06 21:12   ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2014-08-07  7:14     ` Nicolas Richard
2014-08-07  8:33       ` Thorsten Jolitz

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