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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: raman <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggest: dont declare interactive-p obsolete
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:47:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1v598zp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91si41rj2q.fsf@google.com>

> From: raman <raman@google.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:32:29 -0800
> 
> Cleaning up those places would be a good first step.
> 
> Then we could nuke the definition in subr.el.

We need to announce that first.  So it probably won't happen in Emacs
25.1.

> At that point, we should still revisit what the right API to expose
> for this functionality is -- as others have pointed out-- the
> present option
> 
> (called-interactively-p 'interactive )
> 
> is awkward and hard to discover as an elisp developer -- and even if you
> discovered it -- you'd run screaming in fear.  

We could work on improving this situation regardless of what happens
with interactive-p, and when.  We could start right now.

Thanks.



      reply	other threads:[~2015-11-19 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-19  1:57 Suggest: dont declare interactive-p obsolete raman
2015-11-19  4:16 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19  8:39   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-19 13:06     ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-19 13:46       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-20  7:29         ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-19 13:44     ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-19 15:29   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 16:25     ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19 17:32       ` raman
2015-11-19 17:47         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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