From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: calling interactive functions programmatically Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:38:59 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EA95693.2090808@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051285326 4602 80.91.224.249 (25 Apr 2003 15:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 25 17:42:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1995Ks-0001Bs-00 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:42:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 1995JN-0003hE-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051285128 8843648 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112328 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8827 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8827 Phillip Lord wrote: > Now I want to wrap this call inside another, where I already know the > directory in question, but do not know the arguments. > > So I guess I can do... > > > (defun my-find-dired(args) > (interactive (read-string "Run find (with args): " find-args > '(find-args-history . 1))) > (find-dired (get-the-directory-name-from-somewhere-else) > args)) > > But ideally I would like to not do the "read-string" form, as this > duplicates everything in find-dired. > > Is there a way to do this? Does this work: ;; M-x gross-hack (let ((unread-command-events (listify-key-sequence (concat (get-the-directory-name-from-somewhere-else) "\r")))) (call-interactively 'find-dired)) -- Kevin Rodgers