Re: Interactive-form invoked with specified arg

[Emanuel Berg]

gentsquash <gentsquash@gmail.com> writes:

>       (y-or-n-p  "Are you there?")
> or
>       (query-replace "wierd" "weird") .
>
>   Is there a way to programmatically invoke FORM with the
> character already specified?  E.g
>
>   (invoke-as-if-I-typed (query-replace "wierd" "weird") "!")
>
> behaves as if I invoked (query-replace "wierd" "weird"), then,
> when prompted, typed "!".

Well, why would you want to emulate typing? If you told us the
overall goal perhaps we could find a better solution. Because
intuitively, emulate typing seems a bit strange, as typing *in the
first place* most often is an interface to invoking functions and
passing arguments.

You might check out `C-h f call-interactively'.
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