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: position on changing defaults? Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:52:01 -0400 Message-ID: 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 1205373195 26240 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 01:53:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 02:53:43 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 1JZcdY-0000eI-BJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:53:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZccz-00077E-GO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZccD-0006Uq-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZccC-0006Rm-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZccB-0006Rf-SO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from 206-248-156-21.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.156.21] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZccA-0003dc-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E0B9BB4055; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:52:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <47D86DC6.4080805@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:56:54 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Greylist: delayed 1274 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:52:14 EDT 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:92352 Archived-At: >> AFAICT, the approach I proposed where most/all the movement commands get >> changed to call a special function in the interactive spec wouldn't >> suffer from any such problems. I think it's the best approach so far. > I can not see what the advantage with an interactive spec over a property on > the function name is. Could you please tell? Very simple: no magic, no pre/post-command-hook. Stefan