From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reading a variable from the user
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:16:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4p68z6x.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k3uy1yp9.wl%f@mazzo.li
Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li> writes:
> At Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:24:35 -0700 (PDT),
> drain wrote:
>> Is there a function that prompts the user in the mini-buffer, matches the
>> string input with a local variable name, and then returns the variable?
>
> You can use something like
>
> (defun foo (var)
> (interactive "v")
> (message "%S" (symbol-value var)))
>
> See the help page for `interactive' for more info.
Or simply do `C-h v <variable-name> RET' which shows the documentation
and the current value of that variable.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-10 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-10 7:24 reading a variable from the user drain
2012-10-10 9:08 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-10-10 9:16 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2012-10-10 9:22 ` horse_rivers
2012-10-10 13:59 ` Doug Lewan
2012-10-10 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2012-10-11 1:09 ` drain
2012-10-11 3:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-10-11 6:08 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-10-11 6:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-10-11 6:16 ` drain
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