From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `interactive-form` symbol property
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:32:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv36xb9216.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <836028tauv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:20:24 +0300")
>> Interesting case, indeed.
>>
>> You can do
>>
>> (defun my-foo ()
>> (interactive (advice-eval-interactive-spec
>> (cadr (interactive-form 'bar))))
>> ...)
>>
>> Maybe we should promote `advice-eval-interactive-spec` to
>> `eval-interactive-spec`?
> Any reason you dislike the interactive-form property so much that you
> are willing to promote anything else instead? ;-)
The main reason is NIH, of course.
But more generally when we have a mechanism (advice) that provides
a superset of the other (interactive-form), I think it's always
worthwhile to try and see if we really need to keep both.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-25 12:32 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20180624121113.215CF206CC@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-06-24 13:42 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 9a53b6d: Say how to override a primitive interactive spec Stefan Monnier
2018-06-24 13:54 ` `interactive-form` symbol property (was: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 9a53b6d: Say how to override a primitive interactive spec) Stefan Monnier
2018-06-24 15:27 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-24 15:48 ` `interactive-form` symbol property Stefan Monnier
2018-06-24 17:19 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-24 21:57 ` `interactive-form` symbol property (was: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 9a53b6d: Say how to override a primitive interactive spec) Radon Rosborough
2018-06-24 15:40 ` `interactive-form` symbol property Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-24 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-24 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-25 12:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-06-25 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-25 20:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-24 14:44 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 9a53b6d: Say how to override a primitive interactive spec Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-24 22:09 ` Karl Fogel
2018-06-25 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-25 3:47 ` Karl Fogel
2018-06-25 12:43 ` Karl Fogel
2018-06-25 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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