From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using passing the tempo-template user input to my function? Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:56:58 +0100 Message-ID: <863bzuh7px.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <2u7a14F27qaajU1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099256340 26707 80.91.229.6 (31 Oct 2004 20:59:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 31 21:58:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1COMms-0002t4-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:58:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1COMuq-00020z-GA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1COMug-000203-TP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1COMug-0001ze-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1COMug-0001zb-1c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1COMlI-0004WX-3c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:57:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1COMlH-0000x0-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:57:15 +0100 Original-Received: from p5487c34d.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.135.195.77]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:57:15 +0100 Original-Received: from kai by p5487c34d.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:57:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5487c34d.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7iY7DXUa6CSggxjur3/0fQGrWq0= 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21663 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21663 Hattuari writes: > That's pretty much what I'm shooting for. What I want is to prompt the > reader for a series of responses, the first being of the form 'GL' > where is selected from a pick list. The next will be an integer in > the range 1 through 4. And the last value will be boolean, preferably with > some mnemonic representation indicating its meaning. I've looked at > completing-read and completing-read-multiple. I wasn't able to figure out > how to use the latter. Perhaps the easiest method to read a boolean is y-or-n-p. Is this what you mean by "latter"? Kai