From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: position on changing defaults? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:49:49 +0100 Message-ID: <85bq5i8cj6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200803050637.m256bXL3008361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87hcfkdhqk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87pru8enjx.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <8763vy95a6.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87wsoc39i8.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <877igb7dsi.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87hcff5upc.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87fxuxsg3m.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87r6egp8oo.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <47D86DC6.4080805@gmail.com> <87lk4m6y2o.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205448617 20036 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 22:50:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 23:50:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZwG2-0001rm-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:50:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwFT-0001Lm-D4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwFP-0001KN-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwFN-0001J0-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwFN-0001Ip-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZwFG-0008TQ-A8; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.85]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2287103FBB; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:49:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF695107856; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:49:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-030-168.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.30.168]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9665D1BF3D1; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:49:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 9EF911C4F906; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:49:49 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87lk4m6y2o.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:47:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6225/Thu Mar 13 15:52:37 2008 on mail-in-04.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92447 Archived-At: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> I can not see what the advantage with an interactive spec over a >> property on the function name is. Could you please tell? >> >> The interactive spec is where you specify other things about how to >> call the function interactively. So it is a cleaner interface to put >> this in the same place. > > What about commands which have a lisp form as interactive spec? I fail to see the point you are trying to make. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum