From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Define interactive function with arguments Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:47:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87v9fkth3m.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8317"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:mpa63ePCqT/mQEucHJYpv5Cu/IA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 09 01:48:43 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kQfeN-00023L-R3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:48:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57276 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQfeM-0005G7-MH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:48:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQfdp-0005Fr-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:49874 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQfdo-00063T-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kQfdj-0001Js-Ax for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:48:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/08 19:41:25 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124385 Archived-At: 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 -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal