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Re: How to simulate pressing a key


From: netawater
Subject: Re: How to simulate pressing a key
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:18:10 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux)

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Sorry, I misunderstanded your call interactively's mean, I 
>> thought it need me input parameter interactively, sorry for
>> my poor english level, call-interactively is a perfect method
>> for my function. Thank you very much!
>
> No problem. I sympathize with the language difficulties.
>
> BTW, I've filed an Emacs bug (#1010) suggesting a slight change in the doc for
> `call-interactively', to try to prevent the confusion you had.
>
> `call-interactively' just provides the args needed by a command automatically,
> according to its `interactive' spec. In some cases that does entail reading
> user
> input, but not in all cases. I suggested that the language be changed from
> "reading args" to "providing args" and that how the argument values are
> determined be explained explicitly.
>
> Don't be intimidated by difficulty with English. Using short sentences helps.
> There's always room for improvement in the doc, especially as concerns its
> accessibility by people whose mother tongue is not English.
>  

Thank you for your couragement, :)


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