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Re: How to prompt for string?
From: |
Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: |
Re: How to prompt for string? |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:44:50 -0700 |
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jacksneckhurts@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm trying to teach myself emacs Lisp, but can't figure out how to
prompt for a string. I found the "read-key-sequence-vector" function,
but that only takes in one character. Does anyone know how to prompt
for a string? Thanks.
,----[ C-h f read-string RET ]
| read-string is a built-in function.
| (read-string PROMPT &optional INITIAL-INPUT HISTORY DEFAULT-VALUE
INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD)
|
| Read a string from the minibuffer, prompting with string PROMPT.
| If non-nil, second arg INITIAL-INPUT is a string to insert before reading.
| The third arg HISTORY, if non-nil, specifies a history list
| and optionally the initial position in the list.
| See `read-from-minibuffer' for details of HISTORY argument.
| Fourth arg DEFAULT-VALUE is the default value. If non-nil, it is used
| for history commands, and as the value to return if the user enters
| the empty string.
| Fifth arg INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD, if non-nil, means the minibuffer inherits
| the current input method and the setting of enable-multibyte-characters.
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Kevin Rodgers