From: Magnus Henoch <mange@freemail.hu>
Subject: Re: Elisp: Simple function to Add Two Numbers
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:55:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmdp4zdg.fsf@freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ihqd5alub00.fsf@chlr7032.ch.intel.com
Edward Dodge <user@foo.bar> writes:
> Why do I get "wrong number of arguments" every time I try to run this simple,
> straight-forward code?
>
> (defun ekd-average (jabba wabba)
> "Adds two numbers and returns the sum."
> (interactive "nFirstvar: \nn Secondvar: \nr")
> ( + jabba wabba))
The trailing "r" in the interactive string means to give the region as
argument to the function, in the form of two integers telling the
beginning and the end. Remove "\nr" in the end, and the function will
work.
Magnus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-27 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-27 21:25 Elisp: Simple function to Add Two Numbers Edward Dodge
2006-08-27 21:47 ` Hadron Quark
2006-08-27 21:55 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-08-28 1:39 ` Edward Dodge
2006-08-28 1:50 ` Barry Margolin
2006-08-29 0:18 ` Edward Dodge
2006-08-27 21:55 ` Magnus Henoch [this message]
2006-08-27 22:12 ` David Kastrup
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