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From: Michael Slass <miknrene@drizzle.com>
Subject: Re: what does (interactive "P") do?
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:33:36 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wun7byje.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1037830920.29858.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

seberino@spawar.navy.mil writes:

>I just saw (interactive "P") in a .emacs and
>wondered what it did.  I assume (interactive)
>lets a user run a function v. just being
>run from another function.
>
>What extra functiononality does the "P" give you?
>
>Chris
>-- 

You have just crossed the threshold in your lisp programming
sophistication where the manual is a must.  Go get the elisp-intro and
elisp manuals from www.fsf.org.  They're available in info format,
which means that you can read them from within emacs, and evaluate
(execute) the samples as you go.

-- 
Mike Slass

       reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2002-11-20 23:33 ` Michael Slass [this message]
2002-11-20 23:40 ` what does (interactive "P") do? Oliver Scholz
2002-11-20 22:20 seberino

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