From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using variable names as args to interactive functions
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:09:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejcn6bi7.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 96f5c9ae-3f50-4f54-9537-92a27cd618e8@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com
Stuart <stuart.tett@gmail.com> writes:
> I have some variables which I set at startup with setq. There are a
> bunch of variables that get set. Each is a string representing a
> directory path. I want a function which I can just type the variable
> name and it opens dired with that directory.
>
> However, this doesn't work because the interactive option "v" doesn't
> include the variables set with setq because this requires that: "A
> variable declared to be a user option (i.e., satisfying the predicate
> user-variable-p)."
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> (defun find-my-special-dir (dir)
> (interactive "vSpecial dir: ")
> (find-file dir))
Ask for a random expression:
(defun test (dir)
(interactive "XExpression: ")
(message (format "Got %S" dir)))
M-x test RET
(concat (first load-path) "/toto") RET
Gives:
Got "/home/pjb/src/public/emacs//toto"
(my (first load-path) is "/home/pjb/src/public/emacs/").
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
"Debugging? Klingons do not debug! Our software does not coddle the
weak."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-12 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-12 0:53 using variable names as args to interactive functions Stuart
2008-01-12 2:09 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2008-01-12 3:28 ` Daniel Pittman
2008-01-13 8:40 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-01-15 3:17 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-16 1:42 ` Stuart
2008-01-16 3:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
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