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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1992-03-10 22:16:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1992-03-10 22:16:10 +0000 |
| commit | 03759fe00303a19cff5ce1cd1d6408c97ce2c929 (patch) | |
| tree | 02fc2151bf6babf2addb2f6a044cdc7e88e93365 /lisp/map-ynp.el | |
| parent | e97dd18354d2d6bd1b37733e54ebbb82895058fd (diff) | |
| download | emacs-03759fe00303a19cff5ce1cd1d6408c97ce2c929.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/lisp/map-ynp.el b/lisp/map-ynp.el index 606e4a82cb0..914a7ba2cc9 100644 --- a/lisp/map-ynp.el +++ b/lisp/map-ynp.el @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ;;; map-ynp.el -- General-purpose boolean question-asker. -;;; Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +;;; Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;;; Written by Roland McGrath. ;;; ;;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ Takes args PROMPTER ACTOR LIST, and optional arg HELP. LIST is a list of objects, or a function of no arguments to return the next object or nil. -PROMPTER is a function of one arg (an object from LIST), -which returns a string to be used as the prompt for that object. -If the return value is not a string, it is eval'd to get the answer. -So, it may be nil to ignore the object, t to act on the object without -asking the user, or a form to do a more complex prompt. -PROMPTER may instead be a string, in which case the prompt is -\(format PROMPTER OBJECT\). +If is PROMPTER a string, the prompt is \(format PROMPTER OBJECT\). If not +a string, PROMPTER is a function of one arg (an object from LIST), which +returns a string to be used as the prompt for that object. If the return +value is not a string, it is eval'd to get the answer; it may be nil to +ignore the object, t to act on the object without asking the user, or a +form to do a more complex prompt. + ACTOR is a function of one arg (an object from LIST), which gets called with each object that the user answers `yes' for. |