From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `call-interactively' and prefix args Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:55:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87a99uma8o.fsf@gmail.com> <87r436gnfq.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> <8761kim8x3.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401803775 16037 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2014 13:56:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:56:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 15:56:08 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 1WrpCB-0006jY-Ow for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:56:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53560 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrpCB-0003kB-EA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53361) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrpBr-0003iS-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrpBj-0003N8-QQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59407) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrpBj-0003N0-Jo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WrpBg-0006Mn-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:55:36 +0200 Original-Received: from 206-248-131-163.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.131.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:55:36 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-131-163.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:55:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-131-163.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wOfIsdgUi5OkHI5dGicHVcpmbcM= 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:98003 Archived-At: > 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