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From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `call-interactively' and prefix args
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:58:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r436gnfq.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a99uma8o.fsf@gmail.com> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:46:31 +0200")

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?

current-prefix-arg is used. If cmd1 changes it, anything can happen.

e.g.

(global-set-key (kbd "<f6>") (lambda () (interactive) (yffoo)))
(defun yffoo () (setq current-prefix-arg '(5)) (call-interactively 'yfbar))
(defun yfbar (&optional arg) (interactive "P") (message "arg is %S" arg))

hitting f6 will show that arg is (5) (which doesn't make sense in an
true interactive call)

-- 
Nico.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-03 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-03 12:46 `call-interactively' and prefix args Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-03 12:58 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2014-06-03 13:15   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-03 13:55     ` Stefan Monnier

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