drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) (08/04/87)
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 -- Dale Worley Cullinet Software ARPA: cullvax!drw@eddie.mit.edu UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw From the Temple of St. Cathode of Vidicon: