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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Need read-number function
Message-ID: <13690@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 90 07:33:15 GMT
References: <4300068@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <4300068@m.cs.uiuc.edu> reingold@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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;I need a function read-number that would behave like (interactive "n");
;that is, it would keep trying until a numeric value was typed.
;
;Any suggestions?

How's about this:

(defun read-number (number)
   (interactive "nNumber: ")
   number)