Re: use of read

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
>> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>>
>>> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello, i use the function (read) to fill a list interactively.
>>>> the prompt is "Lisp expression:" , is it possible to have another prompt?
>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> This string is hardcoded in the C source code for this function.  So I
>>> think it's not possible to modify it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> no over function to get a variable interactively ?(not with interactive)
>
> Maybe this can help?
>
> (defun read2 (lisp)
>   (interactive "xGive me some lisp: ")
>   lisp)
>
> (call-interactively 'read2)
>
Yes, that work fine with that, like that i can fill my list:

(setq liste nil)
(dotimes (i 3)
  (push (format "%s" (call-interactively '(lambda (var) (interactive "xGive me some lisp: ") var))) liste))

Thank you very much for your help :)

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