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Re: reading a variable from the user
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: reading a variable from the user |
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Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:16:06 +0200 |
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Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li> writes:
> At Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:24:35 -0700 (PDT),
> drain wrote:
>> Is there a function that prompts the user in the mini-buffer, matches the
>> string input with a local variable name, and then returns the variable?
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> You can use something like
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> (defun foo (var)
> (interactive "v")
> (message "%S" (symbol-value var)))
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> See the help page for `interactive' for more info.
Or simply do `C-h v <variable-name> RET' which shows the documentation
and the current value of that variable.
Bye,
Tassilo