Re: Splitting the input string in interactive

[Heime]

On Friday, September 6th, 2024 at 12:36 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> 
wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 12:31:21PM +0000, Heime wrote:
> 
> > On Friday, September 6th, 2024 at 12:21 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de 
> > tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 12:04:18PM +0000, Heime wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Why do I encounter problems when splitting the input string
> > > > in interactive ?
> > > 
> > > Have you read interactive's docstring?
> > 
> > I did. The argument of ‘interactive’ is a string containing a code
> > letter followed optionally by a prompt.
> 
> 
> Exactly. And (concat ... ...) is not a string. It's an expression, that,
> when evaluated, yields a string.
> 
> What is the fourth word in interactive's doc string?
> 
> > To pass several arguments to
> > the command, concatenate the individual strings, separating them by
> > newline characters.
> 
> 
> You have to concatenate them: you might solve that riddle if/when you
> answer the question above.

So it must be a hardwired string.  Not very convenient for multiple
user values.  It would be a good change if the string could be constructed
with concat or with a variable.