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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a function more than interactive..
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 13:46:12 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hsbn34$6kf$1@colin2.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 98189c61-6637-4e08-949b-a591904f9271@b7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com

jdx2172 <dj9027@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Dont know what to call this functionality in emacs.. hence the
> subject "more than interactive..."]

> How do I write a function that when executed prompts the user to enter
> a value at a prompt, asks another value and so on.. until all the
> arguments are provided returns a result.

If you're prompting the user at the start of the command, use
`interactive'.  It has lots of rarely used argument types, which together
will probably do what you want.  "C-h f interactive" is your friend.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-11 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-11 13:11 a function more than interactive jdx2172
2010-05-11 13:46 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
     [not found] ` <lztyqejwer.fsf@informatimago.com>
2010-05-11 15:57   ` jdx2172
2010-05-11 22:57 ` Tim X
2010-05-12 21:45   ` jdx2172

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