Re: user-input ?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Mads Jensen wrote:
 > I am a elisp newbie, who is trying to write a basic major mode.

See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?CategoryCode and especially
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CreateNewMajorMode

 > For this, I need to read some input from the user, but I was not able
 > to find anything about that, in the elisp manual. Can anyone please
 > tell me how?

99% of the time you should only read input to supply arguments to an
interactive command, so start with `C-h f interactive'.  When the basic
interactive codes aren't enough, note that you can write more
complicated things like this:

(interactive (list (read-foo "Foo: " ...)
                    (read-bar "Bar: " ...)
                    ...))

See the rather large "Minibuffers" section of the Emacs Lisp manual,
paying particular attention to the various read-* functions, most of
which are documented in the "High-Level Completion" and "Reading File
Names" nodes.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers