From: Stuart <stuart.tett@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: using variable names as args to interactive functions
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:53:58 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96f5c9ae-3f50-4f54-9537-92a27cd618e8@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
I have some variables which I set at startup with setq. There are a
bunch of variables that get set. Each is a string representing a
directory path. I want a function which I can just type the variable
name and it opens dired with that directory.
However, this doesn't work because the interactive option "v" doesn't
include the variables set with setq because this requires that: "A
variable declared to be a user option (i.e., satisfying the predicate
user-variable-p)."
Any ideas? Thanks.
(defun find-my-special-dir (dir)
(interactive "vSpecial dir: ")
(find-file dir))
Example
--------------
startup:
(setq my-special-dir-a "/path/to/my/special/dir")
minibuffer:
Special dir: my-special-dir-a
next reply other threads:[~2008-01-12 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-12 0:53 Stuart [this message]
2008-01-12 2:09 ` using variable names as args to interactive functions Pascal Bourguignon
2008-01-12 3:28 ` Daniel Pittman
2008-01-13 8:40 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-01-15 3:17 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-16 1:42 ` Stuart
2008-01-16 3:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
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