Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!clarkson!news.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: replacement for '{?}' in emacs/freemacs ? Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 90 02:33:31 GMT References: <1061@massey.ac.nz> Sender: news@news.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: JMaas@massey.ac.nz's message of 10 Oct 90 16:55:01 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: image.soe.clarkson.edu In article <1061@massey.ac.nz> JMaas@massey.ac.nz (J.A. Maas) writes: Does anyone know if there is a function in freemacs/emacs that is similar to the '{?}' function in most popular spreadsheets? I would like to put it into a macro to temporarily halt the macro and await input from the keyboard, then continue operating. You're talking about kbd-macro-query. Freemacs has [as always :-(] a subset of GNU Emacs's function -- Freemacs won't let you do a recursive edit out of it. -russ -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson