From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Passing a list to an interactive function Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 08:54:19 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1883"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: pietru@caramail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 19 10:17:35 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 1kqYMo-0000N5-M1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:17:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39700 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kqYMn-0002lz-Os for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kqYLi-0002lr-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:39313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kqYLg-0007RQ-GR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:16:25 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.37]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E53A.000000005FDDC4E6.00000261; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 02:16:21 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -2 X-Spam_score: -0.3 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DATE_IN_PAST_03_06=1.592, SPF_HELO_PASS=-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:126563 Archived-At: * pietru@caramail.com [2020-12-19 07:30]: > Am trying to fill variables "ta tb tc" with the numbers from "tlist" > (defun thermoluminesce (tseq) "Sets thermoluminesce." (interactive "stseq: ") (message "stseq: %s " tseq) (let ((slist (split-string tseq)) tlist ta tb tpab) (message "slist: %s" slist) (message "tlist: %s" tlist) (message "tlen: %d" (length tlist)) (setq tlist (mapcar #'string-to-number slist)) ;;(setq ta (nth 1 tlist)) ;;(setq tb (nth 2 tlist)) (setq tc (nth 3 tlist)) (message "ta tb tc: %d %d %d" ta tb tc) )) You could as well teach us here what those variables mean by giving them better descriptive names. (nth 2 '(1 2 3)) => 3 Is maybe that the problem? That nth is counting starting from 0, not from 1.