From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ask for the value of several variables at once Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:44:58 -0500 Message-ID: <87606495l1.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <87sh9a36pw.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <20180308160838.GA32404@tuxteam.de> <87fu5aqwml.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <20180308215517.GA12322@tuxteam.de> <878tb1p15l.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <86bmfxdmkl.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520639025 23166 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 23:43:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:43:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 10 00:43:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euRfn-0005wf-Mc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 00:43:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48609 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euRhq-0003xR-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euRhH-0003xA-Qa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:45:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euRhE-0004ry-P9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:45:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34611 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euRhE-0004re-IU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:45:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euRf9-0005CD-Ct for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 00:42:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:XWcOgu18D+D/VF+pf+NmGWxCUww= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116166 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Nick Dokos wrote: > >> I don't know, but it does return a string, >> which I get in the echo area and in the >> *Messages* buffer. Try to paste the defun >> into your *scratch* buffer (make sure that it >> is in lisp-interaction mode), then evaluate >> it > > (defun my-name-is-neo () > (interactive) > 1) > > ;; now try evaluating: > ;; > ;; (my-name-is-neo) > ;; > ;; but then do > ;; > ;; M-x my-name-is-neo RET > ;; > ;; only this also shows it so perhaps the > ;; interactive rule only "holds" sometimes :) > ;; > ;; (call-interactively #'my-name-is-neo) Ah, I did miss the interactive part - thanks! -- Nick