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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).