From: Holger Sparr <sparr+usenet@mfk.mw.tu-dresden.de>
Subject: Re: Interactive string input and comparison
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:58:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lnwtaz6pne.fsf@mfk.mw.tu-dresden.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1151611136.194537.176220@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com
On 29 Jun 2006, scm wrote:
> I am trying to write an interactive Elisp program that will take the
> input of a string, and depending what the string is, run a shell
> command. I also what to have an error printed if the given shell
> command does not exist. This is my attempt at the code so far:
>
> (defun ls ()
> (interactive)
> (prompt for input? variable?)
> (if (string-match "ls" )
> (shell-command "ls -l)
(defun test-ls (cmd)
(interactive "sString: ")
(if (string-match "ls" cmd)
(shell-command "ls -l")
(message "Command %s does not exist." cmd)))
see "C-h f interactive RET"
Holger
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2006-06-29 19:58 Interactive string input and comparison scm
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