From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: distance from Easter Island to Chile Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 00:44:42 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87mwfguasr.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397969126 30099 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2014 04:45:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 04:45:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 20 06:45:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wbjd0-0007L0-Vt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 06:45:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44437 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wbjd0-0002BX-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 00:45:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="31095"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kNL17l4aJ8uv5+OKww9VG" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EAgtKYQRFGNpdwa2xwjJj5mTKYE= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204982 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97247 Archived-At: In article <87mwfguasr.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se>, Emanuel Berg wrote: > (defun distance (l1-r f1-r l2-r f2-r) > (interactive) If you declare this interactive, you need to provide a specification string for the arguments, so that it can prompt for them. And your argument names are not very helpful. They're apparently latitude and longitude, so what does "f" mean? And what is the "-r" suffix on all of them? -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***