Re: Another lisp question

[Klaus Jantzen]

Drew Adams wrote:
>         (defun mytest (n)
>           " Test"
>           ; (interactive "nEnter number: ")
>           (interactive (list (read-number "Enter number: ")))
>           (message "%d was entered" n))
>         
>         With both versions of the interactive statement I have the
>       same effect: the prompt comes back as long as I do not enter anything.
>         
>         I am running emacs22 on Debian lenny.
>         Do I need a special setting to achive what I want?
>
> You said you wanted to use the default value if the user hit Return with typing
> anything first. For that, use (read-number "Number: " MY-DEFAULT), as I
> suggested before.
>
>
>   
OK; I did not really understand why you had that 42 in your code.
It works.
Thank you.
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K.D.J.