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From: Mathias Dahl <brakjoller.rem0veth1s@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reading a directory with (interactive "Dxxx")
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:33:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uoec9kd1v.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bjjvf6ivv6p.fsf@termo1.fi.uib.no

Joakim Hove <hove@ift.uib.no> writes:

>> What about doing this instead:
>>
>>  (interactive)
>>  ...
>>  (read-directory-name "Enter dir: " "~/")
>
> Sure thing - I had tried "apropos ing" for something like that, but
> had not found it. Thanks a lot.

When on the subject, all these functions seems start with "read-",
read-string, read-file-name etc. Nice to know.

/Mathias

      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-20  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-19  8:51 Reading a directory with (interactive "Dxxx") Joakim Hove
2005-04-19 15:46 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-04-20  6:06   ` Joakim Hove
2005-04-20  9:33     ` Mathias Dahl [this message]

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