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From: drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: use of 'interactive'
Message-ID: <1428@cullvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 10:24:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  4 10:24:09 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Aug-87 01:32:29 EDT
Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA
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mayer@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com writes:
>How can I fool interactive "f" to give me "/dev/" as the default-directory,
>instead of using the buffer-local default-directory?

The online documentation for 'interactive' includes the note:

If the argument is not a string, it is evaluated to get a list of
arguments to pass to the function.

Thus, you can write:

	(interactive (list (read-file-name "prompt:" "/directory/")))

I've tried this sort of thing; it works.

Dale
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