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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `call-interactively' and prefix args
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:55:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmwdu3xql.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8761kim8x3.fsf@gmail.com

> Ok, thanks! Then misbehaviour must be coded explicitly, otherwise things
> should work as expected ... what is good. 

Right.  The key to understanding the behavior is that prefix-arg is
handled (i.e. set and reset) by the top-level "read-eval" loop (which
ends up calling call-interactively) rather than by
call-interactively itself.


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2014-06-03 13:55 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
2014-06-03 13:15   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-03 13:55     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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