From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (interactive) call or form? Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:32:34 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86lgdye2sd.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523162008 19954 195.159.176.226 (8 Apr 2018 04:33:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 04:33:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 08 06:33:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f5215-00055G-D9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:33:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f523B-00068f-4T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:35:33 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ey7daRps1n1jd+mMaOEjpw.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:PaQUSIlEdGEuDIXihn67L1Gj0r4= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222279 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116400 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > During the discussion, I started to think: > can an "interactive form" (i.e., the thing > that makes a function a command) be called an > "interactive call"? The technical term is "special form", a primitive function (i.e. written in C, but callable from Lisp) that has its own rules for evaluating its arguments. (special-form-p #'interactive) ; t (special-form-p #'special-form-p) ; nil Use the source, Luke! `interactive' is in callint.c . > the article about Emacs and TeX is in the > final stage of proof-reading. Great, post it here as well when its 100% done! > (In case you didn't know, folks at the > TUGboat are _extremely_ good copyeditors, and > they caught _a lot_ of > typos/grammar/stylistic mistakes in the > paper!) That's normal. If it isn't like that, something is wrong with you... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573