Re: wrong number of arguments when launched interactively...

[Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>]

> On Nov 25, 2018, at 23:06, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> You've defined a function, dailyIndex, that takes one obligatory
> argument, myDate, but the last line of the function definition calls the
> function without argument, that's the error.  Did you mean to make that
> line part of the function definition (and hence make it recursive)?

Wow, thank you Stephen.

1) there is a problem with the parens, the defun stops at the last format
2) I was expecting (wrongly) that the (write-region (dailyIndex) nil "~/Desktop/index.html") expression would use the default value I had set. So instead I'm calling (write-region todayTemplate nil "~/Desktop/index.html") and that seems to work.

Thank you again. I spent a whole day putting all this together. That was quite an education. I'm glad there are sites like stackoverflow and the like because only with the elisp reference I was totally lost.

For ex, the description of (interactive) is absolutely not clear at all when you want a default value for code characters that do not include one, similarly, I was not at all considering (write-region) to get the result on a file...

But I'm glad I'm finishing the day with something that works.



Jean-Christophe Helary
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