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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:41:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY0Km_TEQ=H2XgCr3KdFNHv7CQuz--OGRO7B_4cHAKK95w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b1324d4-ec20-5924-907e-601af94622fc@easy-emacs.de>

Ah! So you are suggesting to use the lowercase (interactive "p") AND (setq
counter (or arg 1)) !

I thought you were providing an alternative to not having to use the
lowercase p interactive form.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:37 PM Andreas Röhler <
andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:

> Not sure IIUC
>
> (defun whatarg-p (arg)
>   (interactive "p")
>   (message "%s" arg))
>
> Called with simply C-u without numeric argument gives me "4"
>
> (4) would be the result with uppercase P
>
-- 

Kaushal Modi


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-06 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-04 12:23 Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1 Florian v. Savigny
2016-09-04 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-04 17:11   ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-04 18:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05  7:16       ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 14:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05 15:22           ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-05 16:32             ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 18:41             ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 19:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-06  7:10                 ` tomas
2016-09-06  9:45                   ` Florian v. Savigny
2016-09-06 10:27                     ` tomas
2016-09-06 11:27                     ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-06 13:27                       ` Florian v. Savigny
2016-09-06 15:22                         ` Drew Adams
2016-09-06 14:20                       ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-06 16:44                         ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-06 16:41                           ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2016-09-07 23:11                         ` Charles Millar
2016-09-08 13:10                           ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-08 14:42                             ` Charles Millar
2016-09-08 15:40                           ` Drew Adams
2016-09-06  7:22                 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 17:04         ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 21:39           ` Florian v. Savigny
     [not found]           ` <<877faqvxfp.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000>
2016-09-05 23:32             ` Drew Adams
2016-09-06  3:45               ` B.V. Raghav
2016-09-04 22:53   ` Florian v. Savigny
     [not found]   ` <<87d1kjjmys.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000>
2016-09-05  0:52     ` Drew Adams
2016-09-15 12:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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