From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: `call-interactively' and prefix args Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:46:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87a99uma8o.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401799642 27042 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2014 12:47:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:47:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 14:47:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Wro7U-0000aJ-NL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:47:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52603 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wro7U-0001mt-9m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 08:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wro7B-0001mm-VL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 08:47:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wro74-0001PA-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 08:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wro74-0001P2-9z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 08:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wro73-0000Fy-Ep for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:46:45 +0200 Original-Received: from e178058078.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.58.78]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:46:45 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178058078.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:46:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178058078.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v2ZD1aeAGVIqk1F0lxzJZn0zDNw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98000 Archived-At: Hi List, ,--------------------------------------------------------- | (call-interactively FUNCTION &optional RECORD-FLAG KEYS) `--------------------------------------------------------- does not have an (optional) ARG argument for passing prefix args to the called command. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defun foo (&optional arg) (interactive "P") (print arg)) #+END_SRC #+results: : foo #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results output (call-interactively 'foo ) #+end_src Evaluated with C-u C-c C-c the code block actually results in #+results: : (4) otherwise in nil. So, when I have an (interactive) command cmd1 that calls a non-interactive function fun that calls another (interactive "P") command cmd2 with `call-interactively' - can I assume that a prefix arg (e.g. by C-u) given before calling cmd1 will be transferred to cmd2? -- cheers, Thorsten