From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: user-input ? Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:00:03 -0600 Message-ID: References: <878y1rh06n.fsf@madamex.madamex.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117818725 1532 80.91.229.2 (3 Jun 2005 17:12:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 03 19:11:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DeFeZ-00052l-Fd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:08:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DeFkJ-0004PU-2s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DeFjH-0003rf-0J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DeFj9-0003nb-1z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DeFj8-0003kh-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DeFdz-00080f-HN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DeFWF-0003Un-Pc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:59:39 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:59:39 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:59:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <878y1rh06n.fsf@madamex.madamex.dk> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27194 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27194 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