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From: netawater <netstandin-003@yahoo.com.cn>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to simulate pressing a key
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:18:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljxfuju5.fsf@emacs.Arch.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.19618.1221926415.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Sorry, I misunderstanded your call interactively's mean, I 
>> thought it need me input parameter interactively, sorry for
>> my poor english level, call-interactively is a perfect method
>> for my function. Thank you very much!
>
> No problem. I sympathize with the language difficulties.
>
> BTW, I've filed an Emacs bug (#1010) suggesting a slight change in the doc for
> `call-interactively', to try to prevent the confusion you had.
>
> `call-interactively' just provides the args needed by a command automatically,
> according to its `interactive' spec. In some cases that does entail reading
> user
> input, but not in all cases. I suggested that the language be changed from
> "reading args" to "providing args" and that how the argument values are
> determined be explained explicitly.
>
> Don't be intimidated by difficulty with English. Using short sentences helps.
> There's always room for improvement in the doc, especially as concerns its
> accessibility by people whose mother tongue is not English.
>  

Thank you for your couragement, :)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-26 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-19 15:12 How to simulate pressing a key netawater
2008-09-19 15:05 ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.19555.1221836708.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-20  2:50   ` netawater
2008-09-20  6:19     ` Drew Adams
2008-09-20  6:55       ` Drew Adams
2008-09-20  7:08         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-09-20 10:59     ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]     ` <mailman.19594.1221891580.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-20 14:37       ` netawater
2008-09-20 16:00         ` Drew Adams
     [not found]         ` <mailman.19618.1221926415.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-26 13:18           ` netawater [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.19605.1221908356.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-20 14:43       ` netawater

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