From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: interactive function name Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:54:14 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <871v21flnt.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <21b55cc1-30f5-453a-9502-2963063bf704@d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300664449 20449 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2011 23:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 00:40:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1SEm-0001t4-NJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50312 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q1SEm-0002Ng-8q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 7PuFr1PnIZlBHg9pfVj52QCjzEHlBL2vpoYqYUh9t8Kc96v84X Cancel-Lock: sha1:NWQxOWM1ZTcxMDg4ZGEzODZmNTg0MDA4YTFiYzFmODkyZjVjMmQ5Zg== sha1:gtv5eWe1bR4awpSJY54iO1DwYqY= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186164 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:80302 Archived-At: Antoine Levitt writes: > 20/03/11 23:38, Ritchie >> I'm trying to use the interactive function name feature. On emacs lisp >> manual it says: >> >> ‘a’ >> A function name (i.e., a symbol satisfying fboundp). Existing, >> Completion, Prompt. >> >> So I tried it with a small test code: >> >> (defun testfun1 () >> (message "hello, world!")) >> >> (defun test (abcd) >> (interactive "aTheme name: ") >> (abcd)) >> >> Emacs gives an error saying, >> >> test: Symbol's function definition is void: abcd >> >> I tried to test abcd with fboundp, it returns t. So I'm quite confused >> about how to use the 'a' option in interactive. >> Any body can give some hints? > > Your problem is not with interactive. (abcd) evaluates the function > "abcd", while you want the function contained in the variable > "abcd". Try "apply". or funcall. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.