Re: Define interactive function with arguments

[Christopher Dimech]

Joost, apology accepted. It is at times beneficial to assume others
know something you don't. Reading the manuals was pointed out and have
checked them, but they are one tough cookie unless one already knows a
decent amount and has used it to do real work.  The most useful thing I
found was describe-function.

I plan to write an abbreviated manual for this stuff, as I found it very easy
to get impatient reading so much material before you can start getting things
done.  Naturally the code I am doing is going to be released, so that new users
can easily set up their new Gnu Machine with some handy keybindings that new 
users
can find useful, quick to understand, and by referring to the code and the 
abbreviated
manual, quickly learn the basics of Emacs Lisp for their own work.

Regards
Christopher



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Christopher Dimech
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> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2020 at 11:22 AM
> From: "Joost Kremers" <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: moasenwood@zoho.eu, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Define interactive function with arguments
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 09 2020, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Your comment simply means, look at the manual and look at the
> > code
> > and don't bother me.  Nobody forced you to reply, and if people
> > do
> > not want to advise, they can simply disregard me.  Have heard
> > such
> > talk all the time, especially in industry.
>
> I'm truly sorry if it came across wrong, but I didn't mean my
> comment that way. It was meant in a "help someone help themself"
> kind of way. The Emacs Lisp Intro is a very helpful resource (I
> think) and I didn't see anyone point it out yet. (Though I may of course have
> missed it, in which case I apologise.)
>
> In the spirit of helpfulness, these two sections of the Elisp
> Intro answer your specific question:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Interactive.html#Interactive
>
> and:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Interactive-Options.html#Interactive-Options
>
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
>