From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: perhaps rephrase "misplaced interactive spec" Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:06:49 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87mwbputjq.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406841026 9705 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2014 21:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:10:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 23:10:21 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 1XCxcA-0002tV-7c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCxc9-0008BN-Lk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:10:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AnvMDbZVJw+XVwlJ/JA6hBIavFo= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206764 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:99040 Archived-At: If have a minor mode (i.e., buffer local) for caps, all in sweet software [1]. I got it from someone else but I modified it to auto-reset when one uppercased C constant or acronym or whatever is typed, so you get back to non-caps automatically. I got the following message when otherwise successfully and without warnings byte-compiling it: ;; caps.el ... Warning: misplaced interactive spec: ;; `(interactive (list (or current-prefix-arg (quote ;; toggle))))' Turns out, I didn't have a docstring! As in, the second line of: (define-minor-mode caps-mode "Caps on you." :init-value nil :lighter " Caps") After thinking my brains out over this, I see now in the help that (define-minor-mode MODE DOC ... so I wonder why I just didn't get a wrong-number-of-arguments? That would have instantly made it clear. Well, just a suggestion. But I think most people will have a hard time deciphering that kind of error message. [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/caps.el -- underground experts united