From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: position on changing defaults? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:47:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87lk4m6y2o.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205448488 19643 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 22:48:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, miles@gnu.org, "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 23:48:35 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 1JZwDs-00018x-Qe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:48:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwDJ-0000QX-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:47:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwDE-0000PT-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwDD-0000P9-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:47:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwDC-0000P2-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-relay.sonofon.dk ([212.88.64.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZwDC-0007xV-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 58015 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2008 22:47:38 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-lx.rd.rdm.cua.dk) (213.83.150.21) by 0 with SMTP; 13 Mar 2008 22:47:38 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 13 Mar 2008 18\:24\:26 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:92445 Archived-At: 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? > > And for the actual implementation of activating/deactivating the mark I > can not see the advantage of doing it directly in the command loop > instead of in special hooks before and after pre/post-command-hook. > > Using those hooks is unreliable and slow. That's simply not true! CUA mode uses them, and it works fast and flawlessly. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk