From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: DEFUN in Emacs's C-code. Can I give "prompt" an arbitrary lisp expression?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:46:47 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk6ttm3pt.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qsmmkc.r6.ln@acm.acm
> Why do I want this? Because I often want to change names like
> "longbuffername.el<2>" to "longbuffername.el", and that much typing is
Try uniquify.
> [OK, I'd need to think about the P on the end, but that's inessential for
> now]. Can I do this directly in emacs/src/buffer.c, somehow?
No.
I think that interactive built-in functions are generally a bad idea for
this reason.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 20:17 DEFUN in Emacs's C-code. Can I give "prompt" an arbitrary lisp expression? Alan Mackenzie
2004-10-14 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-10-14 22:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
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