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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: syntax for function with argument
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.035904.5608@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 03:59:04 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ag@sics.se (Anders G|ransson)

In article <1990Sep17.224911.22873@sics.se>, ag@sics (Anders G|ransson) writes:
| Suppose you want to assign a key-combination to a function by putting
| (define-key-fully global-map "xyz" *something*) in your init-file but
| you want to use the variant of the function you get when it is
| supplied with an argument.
| That is, you want to achieve the result of "C-u (arg)  M-x foo"
| by the key-combination "xyz". What is the *something* in this case?
| 
| 
| I guess this is explained in the manual somewhere but I haven't
| been able to find it. So if some kind soul could email me the
| answer I'd be grateful.

Nope.  It may be in the manual, and if it is, I haven't seen it,
but it'd be something more like this:

(define xyz-with-prefix ()
  (interactive)
  (let prefix-arg '(1)			; or whatever you're calling with
					; see (describe-variable 'prefix-arg)
       (call-interactively 'xyz)))

(define-key global-map "f" 'xyz-with-prefix)

There's no way to do it from just define-key.

Alternatively, you can lookup the arglist of 'xyz (at the proper place in
the source), and feed it arguments like:

(define xyz-with-prefix ()
  (interactive)
  (xyz some-arg some-other-arg))

Just another elisp hacker,
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