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Re: DEFUN in Emacs's C-code. Can I give "prompt" an arbitrary lisp expre


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: DEFUN in Emacs's C-code. Can I give "prompt" an arbitrary lisp expression?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:46:47 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> Why do I want this?  Because I often want to change names like
> "longbuffername.el<2>" to "longbuffername.el", and that much typing is

Try uniquify.

> [OK, I'd need to think about the P on the end, but that's inessential for
> now].  Can I do this directly in emacs/src/buffer.c, somehow?

No.

I think that interactive built-in functions are generally a bad idea for
this reason.


        Stefan


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