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 in a macro Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:51:17 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87ek8acypl.fsf@wash.edu> 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 1125509414 7758 80.91.229.2 (31 Aug 2005 17:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 31 19:30:04 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAWOQ-00047w-Rm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:28:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAWSc-0002oe-Un for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAWQE-0001t0-VB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:30:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAWQC-0001o9-BI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAWJV-00085c-Nk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:23:53 -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 1EAVv3-0000si-Le for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EAVqM-0000my-Ka for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:53:46 +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 ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:53:46 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:53:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 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: <87ek8acypl.fsf@wash.edu> 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:29123 Archived-At: Baloff wrote: > I am building a macro using edit-kbd-macro. > > ****************************** > C-x C-f ;; find-file > E ;; self-insert-command > TAB ;; c-indent-command > T ;; self-insert-command > 2*TAB ;; c-indent-command > 4 ;; self-insert-command > TAB ;; c-indent-command > RET ;; newline > +9 ;; self-insert-command > RET ;; newline > v ;; self-insert-command > C-x C-f ;; find-file > main.cpp ;; self-insert-command * 8 > RET ;; newline > > > now, what that says is make a directory in this location and name it 9 > now, how do I choose a name dynamically while the macro is running? I think this requires enable-recursive-minibuffers to be set: M-: (insert (read-string "Name: ")) RET But there is probably a better way. -- Kevin Rodgers