From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to prompt for string? Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:44:50 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1140152334.515131.156650@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140239495 7148 80.91.229.2 (18 Feb 2006 05:11:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:11:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 18 06:11:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FAKNX-00021Z-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:11:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FAKNW-0006nH-TK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:11:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FABya-0003qT-H8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:13:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FAAZk-0002up-LI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FA8jY-0002Gz-CF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FA8ow-0002p1-9p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FA8jK-0000O3-T3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:45:16 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:45:14 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:45:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1140152334.515131.156650@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33268 Archived-At: jacksneckhurts@yahoo.com wrote: > I'm trying to teach myself emacs Lisp, but can't figure out how to > prompt for a string. I found the "read-key-sequence-vector" function, > but that only takes in one character. Does anyone know how to prompt > for a string? Thanks. ,----[ C-h f read-string RET ] | read-string is a built-in function. | (read-string PROMPT &optional INITIAL-INPUT HISTORY DEFAULT-VALUE INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD) | | Read a string from the minibuffer, prompting with string PROMPT. | If non-nil, second arg INITIAL-INPUT is a string to insert before reading. | The third arg HISTORY, if non-nil, specifies a history list | and optionally the initial position in the list. | See `read-from-minibuffer' for details of HISTORY argument. | Fourth arg DEFAULT-VALUE is the default value. If non-nil, it is used | for history commands, and as the value to return if the user enters | the empty string. | Fifth arg INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD, if non-nil, means the minibuffer inherits | the current input method and the setting of enable-multibyte-characters. `---- -- Kevin Rodgers