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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	"'Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)'"
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RE: [External] :  Making a function than can only be used interactively
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 17:35:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-2e65b756-4330-41dd-8434-7437564d03a8-1657035354054@3c-app-mailcom-bs07> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB5488C35538E29A7ABC29755FF3819@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>


> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2022 at 2:02 AM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: "'Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)'" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Making a function than can only be used interactively
>
> > > Depends whether the person coding that function thinks it is.
> > > What can he do then?  Issue warning as you suggested with `declare`?
> >
> > I don't think we can answer this in the abstract.  So, we'd first need
> > to have some concrete scenario before we can start discussing it.
>
> Yup.  Has any concrete description been presented
> in this thread that makes clear what the real
> problem to be solved is - the use case behind the
> question?

The filling of arguments could be difficult if a sequence of interactive
prompt depend on previous values.

One thing that has been discussed is the following

(defun foo ()
(interactive)
(let ((a ...)
(b ...)
(c ...))
...))




  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-05 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-04 21:07 Making a function than can only be used interactively Christopher Dimech
2022-07-04 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-04 22:05   ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-04 22:35     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-05 14:02       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-07-05 15:35         ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2022-07-05 16:34           ` RE: [External] : " Drew Adams
     [not found]             ` <trinity-568779dc-3120-4001-a48b-df09d38f19a1-1657055684424@3c-app-mailcom-bs14>
2022-07-05 22:40               ` FW: " Drew Adams
2022-07-05 23:05                 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-04 23:33     ` Christopher Dimech

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