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From: | Greg Rowe |
Subject: | Re: user-input ? |
Date: | Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:57:50 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
Mads Jensen wrote:
I am a elisp newbie, who is trying to write a basic major mode. For this, I need to read some input from the user, but I was not able to find anything about that, in the elisp manual. Can anyone please tell me how? Thank you.
Check out the help for 'interactive'. This is a link to the relevant section in the elisp manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp-manual/html_mono/elisp.html#SEC288A very basic example of a function that requests user input in the form of a string:
(defun my-example (arg) "Example of getting user input" (interactive "sEnter a string: ") (insert arg)) Greg -- Home is where the .bashrc is.
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