bug#62864: 30.0.50; Interactive forms that fail to provide required arguments

[Eshel Yaron via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Hi,

I've noticed that dictionary.el defines some functions with an
`interactive' form that doesn't provide their required arguments.

For example, `dictionary-new-search' must be called with at least one
argument, but when called interactively it gets called with no
arguments.  The other two such cases in dictionary.el are
`dictionary-definition' and `dictionary-switch-tooltip-mode'.

IIUC, these "commands" are never actually called interactively, and it
should be safe to simply drop the `interactive' form so they don't show
up in `M-x dictionary- TAB'.

A quick scan of the lisp/ directory of emacs.git reveals a similar issue
with the following function definitions:

calc/calc-misc.el: calc-info-goto-node
calc/calc-prog.el: calc-edit-macro-finish-edit
emacs-lisp/backtrace.el: backtrace-expand-ellipsis
emulation/edt-mapper.el: edt-map-key
gnus/gnus-kill.el: gnus-kill-file-apply-string
international/isearch-x.el: isearch-exit-recursive-edit
net/dictionary.el: dictionary-new-search
net/dictionary.el: dictionary-definition
net/dictionary.el: dictionary-switch-tooltip-mode
net/eudcb-bbdb.el: eudc-bbdb-set-server
net/eudcb-ldap.el: eudc-ldap-get-field-list
net/eudcb-mab.el: eudc-mab-set-server
net/eudcb-macos-contacts.el: eudc-macos-contacts-set-server
net/newst-backend.el: newsticker-save-item
net/newst-plainview.el: newsticker-set-auto-narrow-to-feed
net/newst-plainview.el: newsticker-set-auto-narrow-to-item
net/newst-reader.el: newsticker-browse-url-item
net/ntlm.el: ntlm-build-auth-request
net/socks.el: socks-open-connection
obsolete/eudcb-ph.el: eudc-ph-get-field-list
obsolete/html2text.el: html2text-remove-tags
obsolete/iswitchb.el: iswitchb-window-buffer-p
obsolete/landmark.el: landmark-print-distance-int
obsolete/landmark.el: landmark-print-moves
obsolete/tpu-mapper.el: tpu-map-key
org/org-colview.el: org-columns-compute
org/org-ctags.el: org-ctags-visit-buffer-or-file
org/org-keys.el: org-speed-move-safe
org/org-plot.el: org-plot/gnuplot-to-grid-data
org/org-src.el: org-src-associate-babel-session
org/org.el: org-agenda-prepare-buffers
org/org.el: org--math-always-on
progmodes/dcl-mode.el: dcl-indent-to
progmodes/ebrowse.el: ebrowse-redraw-marks
progmodes/ebrowse.el: ebrowse-view-file-other-frame
progmodes/gud.el: gud-basic-call
progmodes/idlwave.el: idlwave-display-user-catalog-widget
progmodes/opascal.el: opascal-debug-tokenize-region
progmodes/prolog.el: prolog-goto-predicate-info
progmodes/verilog-mode.el: verilog-backward-case-item
progmodes/verilog-mode.el: verilog-just-one-space
progmodes/verilog-mode.el: verilog-indent-declaration
progmodes/vhdl-mode.el: vhdl-template-array
progmodes/vhdl-mode.el: vhdl-template-if-then-use
progmodes/vhdl-mode.el: vhdl-template-record
progmodes/vhdl-mode.el: vhdl-doc-variable
textmodes/reftex-index.el: reftex-index-analyze-entry
calculator.el: calculator-saved-move
dframe.el: dframe-get-focus
filesets.el: filesets-convert-patterns
speedbar.el: speedbar-toggle-etags
treesit.el: treesit--explorer-jump
woman.el: woman-reset-emulation

Here's the code I used to perform the scan, note it assumes emacs.git is
at ~/checkouts/emacs:

(defun required-argument-p (arg)
  (not (member arg '(&optional &rest))))

(defun find-bad-interactive-declarations ()
  (interactive)
  (dolist (file (directory-files-recursively "~/checkouts/emacs/lisp"
                                             (rx ".el" eos)))
    (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect file t t)
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (ignore-errors
        (while-let ((sexp (condition-case _
                              (read (current-buffer))
                            (end-of-file nil))))
          (pcase sexp
            (`(defun ,fun ,`(,(pred required-argument-p) . ,_)
                .
                ,(or `(,_ (interactive) . ,_)
                     `((interactive) . ,_)))
             (message "%s: %s"
                      (file-relative-name file "~/checkouts/emacs/lisp")
                      fun))))))))

Best,
Eshel



In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 6, x86_64-apple-darwin22.4.0, NS
 appkit-2299.50 Version 13.3.1 (Build 22E261)) of 2023-04-15 built on
 esmac
Repository revision: 234be3d670cf04503a81f74617239f62364457ae
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2299
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