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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:43:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wn9z0yu6.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8v1zKzp1A8s=16V=k3G94naPMhiSEjDoA8hP+qFq5oXsQ@mail.gmail.com> (Samuel Wales's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:14:03 -0700")

Samuel Wales wrote:

> i don't need to improve the code. looks like it is
> broken anyway.

Interesting ...

> it was just an nyi example of what interactive could do with
> a spec that allows you to supply symbols and then those
> symbols are set acording to number of c-u operatiosn.

Well, of course with programming you can do whatever you want
with data. f(x) = y ...

> i don't like the interactie spec normally. but in this case
> if it is going to exist for p and P then i think it should
> get symbolic.

Write code ...

(defun try (this times)
  (interactive (list "this" 501)) ; <-- here
  (message "try %s %s times" this times) )

-- 
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https://dataswamp.org/~incal




      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-19 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-08  0:47 interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u Samuel Wales
2022-09-08  1:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-08  5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-08  9:39   ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]     ` <CAJcAo8vg6_Ej-0TtdKQdKDTJ32f=-UJExeyS0Wd-0SCSQyY2jw@mail.gmail.com>
2022-09-10  2:03       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-17  6:19         ` Samuel Wales
2022-09-09  0:49   ` Samuel Wales
2022-09-09  3:36     ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]       ` <CAJcAo8v1ygssXWXHN2yu7OCk9UagSG48-DEPvU7bnZg691JjRg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <CAJcAo8v9XaoT8c8f=9_a=8LOh3euerW5mnfjfNGjDfGjsvPvSg@mail.gmail.com>
2022-09-19  7:10           ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]             ` <CAJcAo8v1zKzp1A8s=16V=k3G94naPMhiSEjDoA8hP+qFq5oXsQ@mail.gmail.com>
2022-09-19 22:43               ` Emanuel Berg [this message]

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