From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature Request: Enable Passing Function Arguments To call-interacively Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:31:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20070804235834.793DC12A4071@localhost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186320597 5643 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2007 13:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:29:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 05 15:29:56 2007 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 1IHgB3-0003TV-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:29:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IHgB1-0004Zn-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:29:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IHgAN-0003mw-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IHgAI-0003ih-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IHgAH-0003ia-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IHgAG-0001zD-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IHgCn-0007SR-A3; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:31:37 -0400 In-reply-to: <20070804235834.793DC12A4071@localhost> (message from raman on Sat, 4 Aug 2007 16:58:34 -0700 (PDT)) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:76053 Archived-At: Have always had this as a wishlist item for call-interactively --namely the ability to do with call-interactively what one can do with funcall. Thus given: (defun foo (a b c) (interactive ...)...) (funcall 'foo 1 2 3 ;;; calls foo non-interactively (call-function-interactivly 'foo 1 2 3 ) ; do the equivalent but make it look as if foo as was called interactvely i.e. (interactive-p) inside foo evaluates to true. That is a pretty clear request. Can you show some examples of when it would be useful?