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From: jcgs@harlqn.harlqn.uucp (John Sturdy)
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs special form "interactive"
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Date: 6 Jan 89 11:17:43 GMT
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In-reply-to: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu's message of 30 Dec 88 19:27:15 GMT

Ram Ashwin writes:
>> Note that foo-arg cannot be one of the arguments to the function since if
>> that function is called interactively, its arguments will not yet
>> be defined.

You can use previous interactive arguments to the function in later
ones like this:
 (interactive (let* ((arg1 (read-from-minibuffer "Arg1: "))
                     (arg2 (read-from-minibuffer
                             (format "Arg2 for %s: " arg1))))
                (list arg1 arg2)))

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