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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: pietru@caramail.com
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Passing a list to an interactive function
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:56:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X9yY2ONt3TWsJY3c@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-60635d1f-9aa5-4897-9a55-840ad52a6be0-1608291497535@3c-app-mailcom-bs11>

* pietru@caramail.com <pietru@caramail.com> [2020-12-18 14:38]:
> I mean, how do I define an interactive function that takes a list as argument?

I do it this way:

(defun my-function (&optional list)
  (interactive)
  continue here...

So that way I can run the function by using M-x or I can also run
it by providing the list.

If I do not do &optional function will require the list and
normally I cannot run it with M-x interactively.

Jean




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-18 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-18 11:05 Passing a list to an interactive function pietru
2020-12-18 11:30 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-18 11:38   ` pietru
2020-12-18 11:49     ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-18 11:50     ` tomas
2020-12-18 11:56     ` Jean Louis [this message]
2020-12-19  2:05     ` pietru
2020-12-19  3:25       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-19  3:34         ` pietru
2020-12-19  3:49           ` Jean Louis
2020-12-19  4:29             ` pietru
2020-12-19  5:54               ` Jean Louis
2020-12-19 11:03                 ` pietru
2020-12-19  6:23               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-19  6:26                 ` pietru

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