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: `are-you-fine' function definition Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:18:40 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87ej42m64o.fsf@gmail.com> <87ej412cpw.fsf@gmail.com> <1220481354.252639@arno.fh-trier.de> <87zlmnzuwm.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220581197 13576 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2008 02:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 02:19:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 05 04:20:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KbQvw-0000oU-6n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:20:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQuw-0006XG-JI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQuY-0006S0-AL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQuW-0006OQ-Hn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50409 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQuW-0006OC-70 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43966 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KbQuW-0006vE-5x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KbQuN-0000a7-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:18:47 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:18:47 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:18:47 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: <87zlmnzuwm.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:57291 Archived-At: Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Thanks very much to all who helped. With their help I'm building a > `my-ps-print-buffer' function, that I'll report so that it may be useful to > others: now I need something like this: the function says: > > Are you fine today? > > . If I say `y', it says: `Oh, good.'; otherwise it says: `Why don't you see a > doctor?' (if (equal (read-string "Are you fine today? ") "y") (message "Oh, good.") (message "Why don't you see a doctor?")) You might want to change the (equal ...) test to one of these: (y-or-n-p "Are you fine today? ") (yes-or-no-p "Are you fine today? ") (let ((case-fold-search t)) (string-match "\\`y\\(es\\)?\\'" (read-string "Are you fine today? "))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA