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: using variable names as args to interactive functions Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:01:05 -0700 Message-ID: References: <96f5c9ae-3f50-4f54-9537-92a27cd618e8@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> <7623c908-28e8-4116-acc3-1a7196bb0c3e@e32g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200452741 1873 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2008 03:05:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:05:41 +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 16 04:06:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JEyb7-0005WT-4r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:05:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEyah-0000rc-Hi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:05:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEyaQ-0000qm-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:05:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEyaP-0000qX-Jf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:05:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEyaP-0000qU-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:05:05 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEyaO-0000SQ-Sy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:05:05 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JEyaM-0002Va-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:05:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (Macintosh/20071210) In-Reply-To: <7623c908-28e8-4116-acc3-1a7196bb0c3e@e32g2000prn.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:50743 Archived-At: Stuart wrote: > Here's what I ended up doing: > > First I changed all the my script to generate the variables as > defvar's instead of setq's: > (defvar my-special-dir-a "/path/to/my/special/dir" "*Special > directory `a'.") > > This allows the "*" to make it a user variable so it can be read by > the interactive prompt. > > Now my definition looks like this: > > (defun find-my-special-dir (dir) > (interactive "vSpecial Directory: ") > (find-file (symbol-value (symbol-value 'dir)))) > > symbol-value 'dir returns the name of the variable the user types at > the prompt (i.e., my-special-dir-a) > Then the symbol-value on top of that returns the string "/path/to/my/ > special/dir" and now it works! (find-file (symbol-value dir)) ; dir should be renamed dir-sym -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA