From: Bill Brodie <wbrodie@panix.com>
Subject: Numeric argument defaulting
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:58:21 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb41ld$he5$1@reader2.panix.com> (raw)
I have several utility functions that take optional numeric arguments and
that I'd also like to make interactive. There are two ways to do this:
1. Define the function to accept either a raw or a numeric argument.
(defun f (&optional x)
(interactive "P")
(cond
((numberp x))
((null x) (setq x <default value>))
(t (setq x (prefix-numeric-value x))))
...)
-or-
2. Define an interactive wrapper around the function.
(defun f (&optional x)
(if (null x) (setq x <default value>))
...)
(defun f-interactive (x)
(interactive "P")
(if x (f (prefix-numeric-value x)) (f)))
Neither of these seems especially clean. Is there a standard Emacs Lisp
idiom for this?
next reply other threads:[~2004-06-20 12:58 UTC|newest]
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2004-06-20 12:58 Bill Brodie [this message]
2004-06-21 15:27 ` Numeric argument defaulting Kevin Rodgers
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