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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: Emacs Interactive functions with arguments
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:10:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2kfpk1i.fsf@ebih.ebihd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-8a6770e7-44e5-4f2f-bc1d-b443546c69ce-1602244369148@3c-app-mailcom-bs09

Christopher Dimech wrote:

> Besides general comments, I have some specific
> question. (1) The two constructs (interactive "p")
> and (interactive "pMessage: ") are valid, but are
> they equivalent? (2) How is (interactive "p")
> different from (interactive "N"). They both
> represent numeric arguments, but what is different?

C-h f interactive RET

> ( defun IntchgWp (arg)
>     "TODO"
>     (interactive "p")
>     (transpose-words arg)
> )
>
> ( defun IntchgW--pmesg (arg)
>     "TODO"
>     (interactive "pType Arg to transpose-words: ")
>     (transpose-words arg)
> )

C-h f defalias RET

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-09 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-09 11:52 Emacs Interactive functions with arguments Christopher Dimech
2020-10-09 14:10 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-10-09 14:42   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-09 20:10 ` Joost Kremers

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