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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: same data appears twice, interactive then function body
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 05:02:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tusm9z4z.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvmtye79og.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Here's my take on it:
>
>     (defun insert-string-centered (string &optional width)
>       (interactive
>        (list (read-from-minibuffer "string: ")
>              (string-to-number (read-from-minibuffer "width [80]: "))) )
>       (let*((max         (if (< 0 width) width (+ 42 42 -4)))
>     [...]
>
> Now the question is how to avoid having 42 appear twice,
> I guess

Ha :)

No but do tell!

Maybe it can't be done, even?

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-16  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-16  1:23 same data appears twice, interactive then function body Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-16  2:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16  4:02   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-12-16  4:16     ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2020-12-16  4:31       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-16  4:36         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-16  4:16     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-16  4:32       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-16  4:43         ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-16  5:19           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-18 14:50             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-18 16:35               ` Drew Adams
2020-12-18 18:15                 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-18 18:09               ` Jean Louis
2020-12-20  4:45                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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