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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Passing a list to an interactive function
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:49:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z4zjpsk.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-60635d1f-9aa5-4897-9a55-840ad52a6be0-1608291497535@3c-app-mailcom-bs11>


On Fri, Dec 18 2020, pietru@caramail.com wrote:
> I mean, how do I define an interactive function that takes a list as argument?

Check out the interactive codes in the Elisp manual, if you haven't found those already:

(info "(elisp) Interactive Codes")

The only codes that would allow you to do what you want are "x" and "X", which
both read a Lisp object, the difference being that "X" also evaluates it.

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-18 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-18 11:05 Passing a list to an interactive function pietru
2020-12-18 11:30 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-18 11:38   ` pietru
2020-12-18 11:49     ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2020-12-18 11:50     ` tomas
2020-12-18 11:56     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-19  2:05     ` pietru
2020-12-19  3:25       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-19  3:34         ` pietru
2020-12-19  3:49           ` Jean Louis
2020-12-19  4:29             ` pietru
2020-12-19  5:54               ` Jean Louis
2020-12-19 11:03                 ` pietru
2020-12-19  6:23               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-19  6:26                 ` pietru

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