From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:43:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87wn9z0yu6.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <83y1uufmhl.fsf@gnu.org> <87leqtte13.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87tu53yh3u.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2156"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jfl02yXACLSLosqID67+3KGQ3R4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 22 14:53:20 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1obLhf-0000Lg-KH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:53:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34554 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obLhe-0006kW-Ll for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59138) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaPUb-0000Q6-Kd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:34282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaPUZ-00059b-R8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oaPUX-000ATE-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:43:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Samuel Wales's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:14:03 -0700") Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:47:16 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139599 Archived-At: 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) ) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal