From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Prefix Argument and optional argument Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:58:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h73t5gyi.fsf@web.de> <878rp5f7vh.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qux5dbs.fsf@web.de> <87sfndkrso.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18192"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:OMJ68WgAkEp7H9SoOTayGUqXdLo= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 16:58:38 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9Sxi-0004VY-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:58:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34004 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9Sxh-0005Du-0A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50108) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9SxG-0005Dd-02 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:58:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:41964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9SxE-0001DE-I6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9SxB-0003p4-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:58:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138353 Archived-At: Christopher Dimech [2022-07-07 15:15:01] wrote: > (defun poke (prefix) > "TODO." > (interactive "P") > ...) > > gives > > Warning: misplaced interactive spec: ‘(interactive P)’ I don't get this warning here. Instead I get two arnings, one about the fact that `prefix` is not used, and the other about the fact that `...` is not a known variable. I suspect that you compiled a slightly different code. Stefan