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How to feed a command prompting for user input non-interactively with ar
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Thorsten Jolitz |
Subject: |
How to feed a command prompting for user input non-interactively with args? |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:59:41 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi List,
I want to (or rather have to) use `comment-normalize-vars' in a program,
and sometimes in 'text-mode' buffers without defined comment syntax
(start, end, add, padding).
The way 'comment-normalize-vars' is written, it always quries for user
input in this case:
,---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| (defun comment-normalize-vars (&optional noerror)
| "Check and set up variables needed by other commenting functions.
| [...]"
| (unless (and (not comment-start) noerror)
| (unless comment-start
| (let ((cs (read-string "No comment syntax is defined. Use: ")))...)
`---------------------------------------------------------------------------
I tried to avoid this by defining a convenience function:
,------------------------------------------------------
| (defun outorg-comment-normalize-vars ()
| "Sets comment-syntax before-hand when undefined."
| (if comment-start
| (comment-normalize-vars)
| (let ((comment-start "#")
| (comment-end (or comment-end ""))
| (comment-add (or comment-add 1))
| (comment-padding (or comment-padding " ")))
| (comment-normalize-vars))))
`------------------------------------------------------
but to no avail.
I tried to set buffer-local variables first too:
,-----------------------------------------------
| (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start) "#")
`-----------------------------------------------
but was still prompted for the comment-syntax.
How can I use this function programmatically in a non-interactive
fashion? And why isn't it written like this
,-------------------------------------------------------------------
| (defun comment-normalize-vars (&optional noerror comment-start)...
`-------------------------------------------------------------------
to make it more convenient for use in programs?
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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