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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b88e7c8: Make transpose-regions interactive (Bug#30343)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:38:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834lkzdsd4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2o3pjmm.fsf@red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on Wed, 28 Mar 2018 23:53:53 -0500)

> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 23:53:53 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >(put 'transpose-regions
> >     'interactive-form
> >     '(if (< (length mark-ring) 2)
> >	  (error "Other region must be marked before transposing two regions")
> >	(let* ((num (if current-prefix-arg
> >			(prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)
> >		      0))
> >	       (ring-length (length mark-ring))
> >	       (eltnum (mod num ring-length))
> >	       (eltnum2 (mod (1+ num) ring-length)))
> >	  (list (point) (mark) (elt mark-ring eltnum) (elt mark-ring eltnum2)))))
> 
> Personally, I think I'd prefer to have the interactive form together with the rest of the function definition, even if that's in C.

I agree.  My reason is that this separation makes finding all the
pieces of the puzzle significantly harder.

> What would you think of mentioning this trick in doc/lispref/internals.texi, in the text for "@item interactive"?

The property is already prominently described, so just a
cross-reference to one of those places should be enough.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-29 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20180311105534.3DAFD23CF3@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-03-11 16:05   ` [Emacs-diffs] master b88e7c8: Make transpose-regions interactive (Bug#30343) Stefan Monnier
2018-03-11 17:23     ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-03-12  9:56       ` Leo Liu
2018-03-11 18:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-15 20:20       ` Richard Copley
2018-03-16 15:23         ` Karl Fogel
2018-03-20 21:33           ` Karl Fogel
2018-03-20 21:46             ` Richard Copley
2018-03-21  7:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-22  5:30               ` Karl Fogel
2018-03-22  7:12                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-22  7:15                 ` Unnecessarily moving stiff between files considered harmful (Was: [Emacs-diffs] master b88e7c8: Make transpose-regions interactive) (Bug#30343) Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-23 18:03                   ` Unnecessarily moving stiff between files considered harmful Karl Fogel
2018-03-22 13:39                 ` [Emacs-diffs] master b88e7c8: Make transpose-regions interactive (Bug#30343) Stefan Monnier
2018-03-23 18:05                   ` Karl Fogel
2018-03-25 10:03               ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-03-25 15:41                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-25 20:29                   ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-03-26 15:59                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-28 20:19                     ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-29  4:53                       ` Karl Fogel
2018-03-29 11:38                         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-03-29 12:17                         ` Stefan Monnier

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