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: Re: Suppress user-prompting when calling commands in programs Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:09:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2eckfr3.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87r42skjd8.fsf@gmail.com> <83k38kx5y8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402672249 28588 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2014 15:10:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:10:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 13 17:10:42 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 1WvT7m-0002P6-3S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:10:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvT7l-0008R3-KC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35705) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvT7M-0008LP-6E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:10:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvT7F-0000t5-Mr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35463) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvT7F-0000qY-HF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WvT7D-0001t4-N5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from e178190046.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.190.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178190046.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:10:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178190046.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e/SfHDX9zoSs8caeQ1WYMiqYhF4= 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:98209 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> (defun foo (&optional arg) >>> (interactive "P") >>> (let ((bar (org-icompleting-read ...))))) >> Yuck! > > Indeed, the prompting should normally take place in the `interactive' > spec, but the above is sadly pretty common. > >>> Assuming `foo' can't be changed - is there another way to bind `bar' >>> before calling `foo' in a program rather than advising `foo' (with the >>> aim to suppress any user-prompting at all during the execution of >>> `foo')? > > Not really, no. And advising `foo' only won't help: you also need to > advise org-icompleting-read. > >> cl-flet org-icompleting-read to 'ignore? > > Nope. That worked with `flet', but `cl-flet' is actually providing > Common-Lisp's `flet' which defines a lexically-scoped function. > Better use an advice here. Thanks (Eli and) Stefan, so an advice is ok here. -- cheers, Thorsten