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Re: elisp: set-register
From: |
Dan Elliott |
Subject: |
Re: elisp: set-register |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:07:42 -0600 |
This did it, thank you.
"Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Dan Elliott wrote:
> > "Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > 2vsd2fF2p4vs9U1@uni-berlin.de">news:2vsd2fF2p4vs9U1@uni-berlin.de...
> >>,----[ C-h k C-x r w ]
> >>| C-x r w runs the command window-configuration-to-register
> >>| which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `register'.
> >>| (window-configuration-to-register REGISTER &optional ARG)
> >>|
> >>| Store the window configuration of the selected frame in register
> REGISTER.
> >>| Use C-x r j to restore the configuration.
> >>| Argument is a character, naming the register.
> >>`----
> >
> > I apologize for being so ignorant, but how does one read the line:
> > (window-configuration-to-register REGISTER &optional ARG)?
>
> It means the function takes 1 required argument (REGISTER) and 1
> optional argument (ARG).
>
> > This is quite confusing to me to have both REGISTER and ARG. Does
> ARG stand
> > for an input the method and REGISTER is the name of that input as used
in
> > the function?
>
> Indeed, the doc string does not explain ARG, nor do the Emacs and Emacs
> Lisp manuals. But if you follow the link to the source, you can see
> that it is bound to the raw prefix argument when called interactively
> and then ignored.
>
> So you probably just want: (window-configuration-to-register ?p)
>
> --
> Kevin Rodgers