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From: gnuist006@hotmail.com (gnuist006)
Subject: Re: HOW TO GIVE A DEFAULT TO A TRULY INTERACTIVE FUNCTION
Date: 17 Oct 2002 07:35:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b00bb831.0210170635.6dbe06f5@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8765w4yec8.fsf@bird.agharta.de

Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> wrote in message 

>   (require 'cl)
> 
>   (defun* bar (&optional (default 5))
>     (let* ((default-string (format "%s" default))
>            (string (read-string "Number: "
>                                 default-string
>                                 nil
>                                 default-string)))
>       ;; needs check for wrong input
>       (list (string-to-number string))))
>   
>   (defun foo (n)
>     (interactive
>      (bar 42))
>     (insert (format "%s" (* 3 n))))

Pathetic solution. breaks one, fixes noone.
It just accepted "u" as the input and did not do number
validation.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-17 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14 16:02 HOW TO GIVE A DEFAULT TO A TRULY INTERACTIVE FUNCTION gnuist006
2002-10-14 17:22 ` Joe Casadonte
2002-10-14 20:07 ` Edi Weitz
2002-10-17 14:27   ` gnuist006
2002-10-17 17:35     ` Barry Margolin
2002-10-18 10:36     ` Oliver Scholz
2002-10-17 14:35   ` gnuist006 [this message]
2002-10-17 15:03     ` Edi Weitz
2002-10-18  5:51       ` huntingdon
2002-10-18  7:13     ` Friedrich Dominicus
2002-10-18  7:07 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2002-10-18  8:05   ` Friedrich Dominicus
2002-10-18 17:05   ` Kevin Rodgers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-14 18:27 Bingham, Jay
     [not found] <mailman.1034620095.15632.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-17 14:22 ` gnuist006
2002-10-18  7:14   ` Friedrich Dominicus

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