From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 9561 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2021 07:44:51 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 31 Aug 2021 07:44:51 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mKyRt-00BfSw-UR for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2021 02:44:50 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1mKyRt-0010Dk-CD for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2021 02:44:49 -0500 Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1mKyRr-0010DZ-Bl for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Aug 2021 02:44:47 -0500 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1mKyRm-00239K-DF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Aug 2021 02:44:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject: From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=NyM9EwYBqm//FelSjcv+5k+j+9PW7TxW7eGbKf3lQWo=; b=gJFmAXrvJYU1sL9gA3FHzg8vIf sJhv9B8Hk66IjO1eadc2Y2RdUKoMG/jiHh38R9UGLjOW61j/297m+Pfe7xs3qPfNRpEpTHCrD1xa+ bOoN1GxlMfmR4984vT0+O7B3l+kGsh7RGQRkGIzlZvI4amXRuPf1Cn2A5u2gzM06ECbA=; Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKyRd-00006M-72 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:44:37 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKyRb-0006nc-9w for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:44:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org To: ding@gnus.org From: Emanuel Berg Subject: Re: for a given emacs session: insert a subject with an increasing counter Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:44:22 +0200 Message-ID: <871r6a2h49.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87v93maplq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87h7f629rj.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87o89e85vg.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xaXbuYK1PZdnTnMTj94OYG9zpHE= Mail-Copies-To: never List-ID: Precedence: bulk Uwe Brauer wrote: > Thanks very much, recursion, sigh, I should have thought > about it. Indeed not recursion, a global/special/dynamic variable, so (defvar my-subject-counter) (setq my-subject-counter 0) > (setq my-subject-counter 0) > (message "Now my-subject counter has been reset to ZERO!")) (message "... %s" my-subject-counter) > (setq my-subject-counter (+ my-subject-counter 1)) (require 'cl-lib) (defun ... (cl-incf my-subject-counter) ... ) > (read-string "Total number: " ) Hm ... don't you want to automate that as well? > (concat "[" (int-to-string my-subject-counter) "/" total "]") (format "[%s/%s]" my-subject-counter total) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal