From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Define interactive function with arguments
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:47:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9fkth3m.fsf@ebih.ebihd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-95b0ad78-9b55-44b1-bea4-a7144db0e79e-1602198901840@3c-app-mailcom-bs14
Christopher Dimech wrote:
> I want to call a function that takes a numeric
> argument to I can shift paragraphs.
>
> ( defun Transpose-Paragraphs-Arg (arg)
> "Transfer paragraph backward"
> (interactive)
> (transpose-paragraphs arg)
> )
>
> I have been using "M-x Transpose-Paragraphs-Arg"
>
> But then, how does one pass the value of the
> argument to the function.
C-u X M-x transpose-paragraphs RET
where X marks the spot!
Use without an explicit number also works,
just C-u - 4
then C-u C-u - 16
and so on
Also negative values are possible, e.g.
C-u -1 M-x transpose-paragraphs RET
Also works with shortcuts.
See
C-h f universal-argument RET
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-08 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 23:15 Define interactive function with arguments Christopher Dimech
2020-10-08 23:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-08 23:47 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-10-09 6:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-09 7:18 ` Joost Kremers
2020-10-09 8:57 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-09 9:22 ` Joost Kremers
2020-10-09 9:52 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-09 14:03 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-09 14:01 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-09 14:24 ` Christopher Dimech
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