From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heime Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Splitting the input string in interactive Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:30:17 +0000 Message-ID: References: <3Q6LSj1_5awef2-pxI68lVDJFZMH6txZEzMo7B_A5txYblqB29fB4BQE9oFedWVqUxGIdOq53MLrAb5a-9YYDt3v7PRxmNDgF8lWW11Oeqs=@protonmail.com> <87ed5y2qwg.fsf@web.de> <875xra2oim.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21832"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Heime Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 05 16:31:21 2024 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 1smDW5-0005Tt-4N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1smDVG-0003N8-7v; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1smDVE-0003Mk-AR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40132.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.132]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1smDVB-0002uG-VS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:30:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1725546622; x=1725805822; bh=CYwkkjdaRQSXsrsgc40BDEE70ISxkt9WjBkLSEz3D/o=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=CZj4o6YfxXY407+dlRBrTTYHVLcniiTgfQsjf6LBHX56Zce23Vz6xvCROD9Hq2cT6 y1LsuFbcNlNN62DLV2FOj5LaPZ99vGSZovamQuxtus24mdyHLJKspj4EwoK/TeZWt7 SPOsEMatze25my/0zRfZNqsv+0bvHRIrSTd331QJ93CbFE5MCMymPCZORUrTy0xiPp IlPHhWK6YXLSqNB1tCo3bEjYlI3coHesR4cyoKPGE9S/3sT9ZDVyHOKtz4u3nod9Uh oc2oQyzqfoYIUzjFBb4M61eZZYTip2h9BvS7P8I9+0xU4D/c0ssYbf4NDvMoT+jwp1 EBdjOkQj+6rRA== In-Reply-To: Feedback-ID: 57735886:user:proton X-Pm-Message-ID: 897c58003f4e096bb9dcc5e2629c474f27cd18ef Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.132; envelope-from=heimeborgia@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40132.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, TO_EQ_FM_DIRECT_MX=0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147927 Archived-At: Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Friday, September 6th, 2024 at 2:15 AM, Heime wrote: > On Friday, September 6th, 2024 at 1:55 AM, Michael Heerdegen via Users li= st for the GNU Emacs text editor help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org wrote: >=20 > > Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com writes: > >=20 > > > > How much of the docstring did you read ? - Michael. > > >=20 > > > Currently one has to input a literal string from what I understood. > > > Not variables or expressions. > >=20 > > You can also specify an expression - an expression that returns the lis= t > > of arguments. But not an interactive ARG-DESCRIPTOR - the arguments as > > a list, at runtime. > >=20 > > What you can do: > >=20 > > (1) Rewrite your interactive form to use an expression that returns the > > argument list to use. Something like > >=20 > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > > (interactive (list (read-string ...) (read-number ...)) > > #+end_src > >=20 > > or (2) > >=20 > > There is a read syntax for "escaped" line breaks in strings. Not only > > for interactive arguments descriptors - for any strings. For example in > > your case this would look like: > >=20 > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > > (call-interactively (lambda (s n) (interactive "\ > > sEnter search text: \n\ > > nEnter number of context lines: ") > > (list s n))) > > #+end_src > >=20 > > or (the explicit newline character and escaping the line break cancel o= ut > > each other) simplified > >=20 > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > > (call-interactively (lambda (s n) (interactive "\ > > sEnter search text: > > nEnter number of context lines: ") > > (list s n))) > > #+end_src > >=20 > > Note that it is an error to indent the string's lines here, since the > > indentation would get part of the string's contents. Emacs's > > indentation commands know about this. Looks a bit unusual first but one > > gets used to it. - Michael. I have noticed that in the latter there is not a space after ""sEnter searc= h text". Is the correct way to have "sEnter search text: \n\" ? Using the string approach has a number of caveats.