Re: Writing Emacs-function: how?

[Anselm Helbig]

At Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:35:34 -0700 (PDT),
d7@thispla.net wrote:
> 
> > Look up use of
> >
> >   (interactive)
> 
> Thanks. But for me, there are still too many open issues. I would
> appreciate a small example.

Well, then, look up the examples in the documentation:

  (info "(elisp)Interactive Examples")

For your function it is really simple:

  (defun my-replace nil "doc-string"
    (interactive)
    (while (re-search-forward "<DF>" nil t)
      (replace-match "ß" nil nil)))

The more complex uses of "interactive" allow you to specify how your
commands gets its arguments, i.e. prompting the user for a file,
buffer or just some text, giving it a (numeric) prefix argument etc.

HTH, 

Anselm



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