From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Schmidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to IELM use minibuffer? Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:36:48 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <87y5g2k899@ch.ristopher.com> References: <20130109171348.f3ee9527e79ad87b396fd6b9@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357724223 30803 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2013 09:37:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:37:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 09 10:37:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tss63-0002Jg-Ni for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:37:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42499 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tss5n-0005ka-T5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48695) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tss5e-0005k9-P8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:36:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tss5b-0008Un-SR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:36:54 -0500 Original-Received: from ristopher.com ([146.185.21.93]:41144 helo=saturn.ch.ristopher.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tss5b-0008UZ-K8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:36:51 -0500 Original-Received: by saturn.ch.ristopher.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id 76C4E203F6; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:36:48 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=ch.ristopher.com; s=mail; t=1357724208; bh=c9C6jye/9AreS3H0OOCoQm9v39fA0gSC7OCj6DW4X4I=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Date; b=VkrwgGy3iNfEzx7xc7U2se3JqT9K3oaf2ZFnpvEhqEGLwjveTi1YBK7YOyx3QGMqN hVaTmrOkytGwGKUwFols1Vgz4znxegHu2BMDgJ0wb+j16lYdzC+VUtuQckqM8iPVHv RHK7k57Qi7Ryp/oRjau6Qz/OcKjA7MYSbqSVSA04= In-Reply-To: <20130109171348.f3ee9527e79ad87b396fd6b9@gmail.com> (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:13:48 +0800") Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 146.185.21.93 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88536 Archived-At: Xue Fuqiao writes: > I used (interactive "x") in IELM just now, but it only returns nil and > didn't let me input the Lisp object. How can I use minibuffer in > IELM? interactive is not meant to be used interactively, it is merely a declaration within functions and lambdas. Check C-h f interactive RET Try read-from-minibuffer in combination with read. Christopher