From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making `interactive' conditional Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:19:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mvszdp6b.fsf@gnus.org> <8737u9kv6f.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87fuy7hdc6.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> <87bn8vh8q4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <4002fc97-5629-4367-8b8f-48b659fefdce@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452493192 25207 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2016 06:19:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 06:19:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 11 07:19:46 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aIVpR-000591-Tp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:19:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIVpR-0005eD-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:19:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49193) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIVpN-0005e2-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:19:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIVpI-0002m9-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:19:41 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIVpI-0002m5-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aIVpH-0004z4-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:19:35 +0100 Original-Received: from 184.175.3.20 ([184.175.3.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:19:35 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 184.175.3.20 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:19:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.175.3.20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:D3KXQQOS7L2acAr6CUe5cUNuf7M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198015 Archived-At: > Right now, functions are interactive if declared with `interactive', and not > otherwise. The suggestion at hand is to allow `interactive' forms to become > conditional -- possibly in multiple ways. I like this concept, and think the > right place for it is indeed in core. Note that it turns `commandp' from a pure function to an impure one. I think that pretending that "foo" is not interactive just because you're not in the right context is going too far. Stefan