From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to exit function from inside its `interactive' call? Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:12:27 +0200 Message-ID: <8738d9s4p0.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878un1s91k.fsf@gmail.com> <6eef87dc-82d7-44ae-b056-c8213a55999c@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407362083 11595 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2014 21:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 21:54:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 06 23:54:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XF9AG-0007G2-VY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:54:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41754 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF9AG-0005hs-Kq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:54:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49797) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF8Vu-0006uu-FC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF8Vn-0000ZW-1k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54335) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF8Vm-0000ZD-Qx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:12:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XF8Vj-0004IY-CO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:12:39 +0200 Original-Received: from e178063155.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.63.155]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:12:39 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178063155.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:12:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178063155.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+NoixN7InoxQWfmFJ3+Qf4bVldw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99105 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> how can I use catch/throw (or whatever) to exit function foo from inside >> its 'interactive call? All combinations I tried so far only exit >> 'interactive and still execute the function body. > > (defun bar () > (interactive (top-level)) > (message "aaaaaaaaa")) > > (defun foo () > (interactive > (throw 'top-level 'HELLO)) > (message "JJJJJJJJJJJJJJ")) That works, thanks! Did not know about `top-level'. -- cheers, Thorsten