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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Input from buffer instead of minibuffer
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:21:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr4pe4blw.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 58f60ac7-2407-411c-92ba-13a4550f682a@googlegroups.com

> Is there an easy way to read a response from the buffer instead of the
> minibuffer? If it matters, a "response" is a string of 1-8 alphabetic
> characters terminated by a newline/return key.

You might want to do it in the same way as M-x doctor.


        Stefan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-04 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-30 20:46 Input from buffer instead of minibuffer Michael Haensel
2012-10-01  1:10 ` Barry Margolin
2012-10-03 15:45   ` Stephen Berman
2012-10-04 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-10-04 13:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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