From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mixing argument types Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:06:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87o9doklgi.fsf@gmail.com> References: <86tvnhktf7.fsf@zoho.com> <86pny4ly4p.fsf@zoho.com> <86lg8slxsd.fsf_-_@zoho.com> <86d0u4ltrl.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535375143 25442 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2018 13:05:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:05:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 15:05:39 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 1fuHD5-0006T4-Kc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:05:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuHFB-0003dy-SS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:07:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43217) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuHEJ-0003cs-N8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuHEG-0007ND-Fl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51261 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuHEG-0007Lx-8O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:06:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fuHC4-0005DW-Sj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:04:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tx4lx39kvRsUC12djzR8h4zlrJI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:117769 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> So you'd write: >> >> (defun do-a-on-b (a b &optional start stop) >> (interactive >> (list >> (completing-read "Give me A: " '("foo" "bar")) >> (read-file-name "Give me B:") >> (region-beginning) >> (region-end))) >> ...) > > Great, thanks! What does `A' stand for...? And foo and bar...? And region-beginning/end...? Excuse my unexperienced requests of explanation... Thanks... Rodolfo