Re: How to read an integer from the minibuffer

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > > Apparently it doesn't do what I want here, namely converting "[0-9]" 
> > > > into "0123456789", "[0-9a-f]" into "0123456789abcdef", and so forth.
> > >
> > > I think it can!
> >
> > Please show me how
>
> I don't know but you realize it must be possible since otherwise how can 
> it be used ...

Of course it's possible; what I said is that there's AFAIK no predefined 
function in Elisp that does it.