From: Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com>
Subject: newbie : elisp - prompt for input
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:17:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irkc4ql6.fsf@mail.com> (raw)
Is the snippet below the best way to prompt and parse an integer value?
(defun count-words(max)
"count words in buffer"
(interactive "nMax words to count to:")
(while (zerop max)
(setq max (string-to-number(read-string "> 0 please. re-enter:"))))
next reply other threads:[~2006-08-28 19:17 UTC|newest]
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2006-08-28 19:17 Hadron Quark [this message]
2006-08-28 21:07 ` newbie : elisp - prompt for input Kevin Rodgers
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2006-08-28 21:15 ` Hadron Quark
2006-08-29 19:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-08-28 21:24 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-29 19:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
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