Re: how to interactive to emacs

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"hallen" <longhrs@gmail.com> writes:

> I am get a function to count the words in a buffer
> -----------------count.el
> (defun count-word-buffer()
>   "couont the number of words in the current buffer;
>  priny a message in the minibuffer with the result"
>   (interactive "p")
>   (save-excursion
>    (let ((count 0))
>      (goto-char (point-min))
>      (while (< (point) (point-max))
>        (forward-word 1)
>        (setq count(1+ count)))
>      (message "This buffer total contains %d words" count)))
> ------------------
> i  can use in the emacs-lisp mode .so how can i interactive it to emacs
> so that i can use the count-word-buffer function for all the emacs
> buffer.

Your "interactive" form is incompatible with the actual argument list
of count-word-buffer.  It arranges for count-word-buffer to be called
with one argument.  Remove the "p" from the form if you don't want to
actually use a potential prefix argument.

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