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Article #8263Re: GNU Emacs special form "interactive"
From: John Sturdy
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 11:17
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 11:17
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Ram Ashwin writes:
>> Note that foo-arg cannot be one of the arguments to the function since if
>> that function is called interactively, its arguments will not yet
>> be defined.
You can use previous interactive arguments to the function in later
ones like this:
(interactive (let* ((arg1 (read-from-minibuffer "Arg1: "))
(arg2 (read-from-minibuffer
(format "Arg2 for %s: " arg1))))
(list arg1 arg2)))
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