From: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: interactive function name
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:45:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lj0976nq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 21b55cc1-30f5-453a-9502-2963063bf704@d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com
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".
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2011-03-20 22:38 interactive function name Ritchie
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2011-03-20 22:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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