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| From: | Hadron Quark |
| Subject: | newbie : elisp - prompt for input |
| Date: | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:17:57 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Is the snippet below the best way to prompt and parse an integer value?
(defun count-words(max)
"count words in buffer"
(interactive "nMax words to count to:")
(while (zerop max)
(setq max (string-to-number(read-string "> 0 please. re-enter:"))))
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