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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 10624@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10624: Dired-marking all files in the region
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:40:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9u9hcu2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehjmrmzg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:49:57 +0200")

> is to add an `interactive' arg (there were some reasons not to use
> (called-interactively-p 'interactive) but I forgot the exact reasons).

One of the main reasons is reliability.  If you look at the code of
called-interactively-p, you'll see it's pretty hackish, so it's easy to
break it.  For example `called-interactively-p' may fail to work correctly
in the following known cases:
- when the function is advised (this was recently improved, so it will
  now fail sometimes rather than always).
- when inside a condition-case or catch in lexical-binding code.
- when inside a `pcase' branch (because pcase sometimes moves the
  branch to a lambda in order to avoid duplicating the code).

Another reason is that it makes it more flexible for non-interactive
callers, which can control whether to run the function "as if the
arguments had been provided interactively".

`called-interactively-p' is handy when you can't add an argument, but
otherwise it's much better to add an `interactive' argument.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-22 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-27 15:35 bug#10624: 24.0.92; default value of `dired-do-ch*' Drew Adams
2012-01-27 16:23 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-14 23:47   ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-15  0:37     ` Drew Adams
2012-09-15 22:50       ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-16  4:47         ` Drew Adams
2012-09-16 23:48           ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-17  0:39             ` Drew Adams
2012-09-18 23:22             ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-15 22:54       ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-16  4:47         ` Drew Adams
2012-09-16 23:45           ` bug#10624: Dired-marking all files in the region Juri Linkov
2012-11-22  9:49             ` Juri Linkov
2012-11-22 15:27               ` Drew Adams
2012-11-23  7:51                 ` Juri Linkov
2012-11-23 17:12                   ` Drew Adams
2012-11-25  9:16                     ` Juri Linkov
2012-11-25 15:49                       ` Drew Adams
2012-11-25 16:12                         ` Juri Linkov
2012-11-25 17:02                           ` Drew Adams
2012-11-22 15:40               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-11-23  7:59                 ` Juri Linkov

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