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From: pietru@caramail.com
To: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Optional Arguments
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 04:17:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-ca649924-eebb-461b-8f6f-fe4cce5648aa-1607311030577@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)

Would like to have two functions

1. skip-chars - skip to beg of word (if no argument) or end of word (if argument is 1)

2. word-markers - get beg and end of a word position of word

Have written the following. For the first one, I have not used optional arguments before.
And have read documentation about functions.

About the second, there errors when I try to execute.

(defun typh-skip-chars (&optional n)
   (interactive "n Skip direction: ")
   (if (= n 1)
      (skip-chars-forward "[:alpha:]")
      (skip-chars-backward "[:alpha:]")) )

(defun typh-word-markers (ma mb)
   (interactive)
   (skip-chars-backward "[:alpha:]")
   (setq ma (point))
   (skip-chars-forward "[:alpha:]")
   (setq mb (point))
   (message "[ma,mb]: %s,%s" ma mb) )





             reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-07  3:17 pietru [this message]
2020-12-07  8:16 ` Optional Arguments Alexis Roda
2020-12-07 12:37   ` pietru
2020-12-07 13:06     ` tomas
2020-12-07 13:35       ` Anders Dalskov
2020-12-07 14:24       ` pietru
2020-12-07 15:38         ` tomas
2020-12-07 18:13           ` pietru
2020-12-07 19:01             ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-07 19:42               ` pietru
2020-12-07 19:54                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-07 20:21                   ` pietru
2020-12-07 20:52                   ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-07 21:21                     ` pietru
2020-12-07 19:51             ` Alexis Roda
2020-12-07 15:06       ` pietru
2020-12-07 15:51         ` tomas
2020-12-07 17:51           ` pietru
2020-12-07 18:33             ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-07 18:49               ` pietru
2020-12-07 20:13             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-07 20:25               ` pietru
2020-12-07 20:39                 ` Christopher Dimech

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