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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using conditional in interactive
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 20:50:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwhxsnT_JVn48AOgb2_79d7iUToHSX2yjuB0qNhTKtQbK7DK8ta7jwXL16hSaEC7UEw8acDyEB4W5mEOmEYHzlDeK8y9Ue1wuc_MiVq1eqM=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o74o4svq.fsf@web.de>


On Monday, September 16th, 2024 at 7:30 AM, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:

> Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com writes:
> 
> > (interactive
> > 
> > (cond
> > ((eq (nth 0 xiakos-context) 'list)
> > 
> > (list
> > (read-string " Search Text: ")
> > (read-number " Number of Context Lines: ")
> > (read-string " Buffer Name: ")))
> > 
> > (t
> > "s Search Text: \n\
> > n Number of Context Lines: \n\
> > s Buffer Name: ") ))
> 
> 
> I already mentioned why you don't want something like this: in
> 
> (interactive EXPR)
> 
> the return value of the EXPR is used as argument list, not as an
> interactive spec. The EXPR already is the interactive spec.

I am not following your argumunt.  Would cond not pass the string and 
interactive sees it ?  If the first condition is satisfied, the interactive
part work correctly, even though there is a cond expression.  Yet, the cond
with a string outputs interprets things completely differently.   
 
> So to say, you are mixing two unrelated things here. - Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-15 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-12 21:36 Using conditional in interactive Heime
2024-09-15 19:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2024-09-15 20:50   ` Heime [this message]
2024-09-15 22:22     ` Heime
2024-09-16  5:23       ` Yuri Khan

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