From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Run Non-Interactive Function with Prefix Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:40:32 +0200 Message-ID: <43553390.2050504@student.lu.se> References: <87ach6dbh2.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> <4355290F.3030008@student.lu.se> <871x2idali.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129657291 1489 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2005 17:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 19:41:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERvSP-0007gD-Vf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:41:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERvSP-0005hd-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:41:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERvS7-0005h8-20 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERvS3-0005fe-4Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:40:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERvS2-0005fX-VN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ERvS2-0004v8-JT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.204.195) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 4349BB86001F4503; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:40:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: khj@cs.appstate.edu In-Reply-To: <871x2idali.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30335 Archived-At: Kenneth Jacker wrote: > lb> Do you mean (foobar ARG), perhaps (foobar t) or (foobar 1)? > >No. The function 'foobar' might or might not require an ARG. > > >What I want to do is specify a *prefix* before invoking 'foobar'. >Note that this is independent of whether the function has a required >argument or not. > >I specify this interactively with "C-u", but how to do it *non*-interactively? > > -Kenneth > > I am not sure I understand (or rather "I am sure I do not understand" ;-) In the CVS version of Emacs there is information about this Info: (elisp) Prefix Command Arguments Maybe that can help you?