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From: Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Extra info in modeline (tip and questions)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:04:54 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3c80569-a415-4960-8bc0-2868a43d7523@c18g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5377.1239801271.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On 15 apr, 15:14, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
> > I also have another function where I need to input a boolean value
> > interactively. At the moment I am doing this with n and use 0 for
> > false and every other value for true. Is there a better way?
>
> You can use `y-or-n-p' or `yes-or-no-p'.  But they don't have
> characters in the interactive form.  So you need to do this:
>
> (interactive (list (y-or-n-p "bool: ")))

I tried this (in a function test), but that gives:
    test: Wrong type argument: stringp, t



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-28  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 14:03 Extra info in modeline (tip and questions) Decebal
2009-04-14 15:54 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found] ` <mailman.5329.1239724470.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-15  5:53   ` Decebal
2009-04-15 13:14     ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5377.1239801271.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-28  7:55       ` Decebal
2009-04-28 10:27         ` Decebal
2009-04-28  8:04       ` Decebal [this message]
2009-04-28  8:23         ` Decebal
2009-04-15 11:06 ` Decebal
2009-04-15 13:23   ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5379.1239801830.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-15 16:13     ` Decebal

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