Questions tagged [interactive]
`interactive` spec of an Emacs-Lisp command (function invocable using `M-x` or a key binding)
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How can I determine which function was called interactively in the stack?
Say I have two functions
(defun tmp:a ()
(interactive)
(tmp:b))
(defun tmp:b ()
(message "called from %S" "?"))
If I call M-x tmp:a, how can I determine this from tmp:b?
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How to interactivelly pass a `listp arg` to `yank`
Is it possible to interactively pass an argument that matches listp to the function yank so that current-kill receives an argument of 0? If so, how please can that be achieved?
Background:
I am ...
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How can I use an interactive function in a script?
I'm using virtualenvwrapper.el to load Python virtualenvs during emacs sessions. I would like emacs to start with a default one, so I don't have to load it manually every time.
To load it manually, I ...
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Can I accept a prefix argument based on another argument within an `(interactive …)` form?
(defun tmp:interactive (&optional scope pos-style)
"POS-STYLE has no effect when SCOPE is `directory'."
(interactive
(list
(cdr (assoc (read-char-choice
"Copy (f)ull ...
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How can I read a single character from the minibuffer?
When part of a defun,
(interactive "c(C)hoose (A)n (O)ption")
will prompt the user for a single character; RET is not required. How can I replicate this reading behavior without the need for ...
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ielm, bound to a certain buffer
Is there a way to run ielm, but with variables bound to a certain buffer?
I know about M-:, but having a shell like ielm to inspect things would be much easier.
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How do I maintain a history of ido-read-filenames?
I've written a helper function for mu4e to run checkpatch against a message. However I want to be easily able to switch between previous calls to checkpatch and this seems difficult with ido-read-file-...
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Helm and custom commands
If I write a command that calls (interactive "f"), Emacs will prompt the user to select a file when the command is run interactively. With Helm enabled, this selection is done through Helm with no ...
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How to search for lines not containing some text?
In a large file, I want to find which lines which do not contain a given string, grep -v basically.
M-x grep helps, but it forces to protect special characters, is not interactive nor incremental, ...
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Interactive pop-up dialog?
Is there a popup input dialogue box for Emacs, which returns the string that a user enters? Maybe something that can be launched through the mini-buffer? Or through an elisp command/function?
