From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Suppress user-prompting when calling commands in programs Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:51:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87r42skjd8.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402667564 934 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2014 13:52:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:52:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 13 15:52:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WvRuH-0007aR-CP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:52:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvRuG-0002p7-Tq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47043) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvRtx-0002ox-Rk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvRtk-0005bA-Vl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35141) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvRtk-0005a7-PG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WvRth-00071Q-T9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:52:01 +0200 Original-Received: from e178190046.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.190.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:52:01 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178190046.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:52:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178190046.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MhjcY+QDtwZwTD/MFIiBryFTsQc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98204 Archived-At: Hi List, I often encounter user commands that do exactly what I want, and would like to reuse them in a program, but they are not really written for programmatical use, i.e. they prompt the user for information to be stored in (local) variables, but don't expose these variables as function arguments: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun foo (&optional arg) (interactive "P") (let ((bar (org-icompleting-read ...))))) #+end_src I guess thats because writing the interactive spec and binding keys becomes so much simpler that way. Assuming `foo' can't be changed - is there another way to bind `bar' before calling `foo' in a program rather than advising `foo' (with the aim to suppress any user-prompting at all during the execution of `foo')? I seem to remember that a solution for this exists, but I can't find it anymore. Thanks for any hint. -- cheers, Thorsten