From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#1001: 23.0.60; xref Interactive Call from Calling Functions in Elisp manual Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:09:01 -0700 Message-ID: <000601c91a69$a6da9180$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Drew Adams , 1001@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221838080 27513 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2008 15:28:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:28:00 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 17:28:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kghua-0002k2-Us for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Please consider cross-referencing node Interactive Call from node Calling Functions in the Elisp manual. And vice versa, probably. It's not obvious to someone just starting out how to call a command so that it uses the `interactive' spec, and they won't find help at node Calling Functions. It's common not to grasp the distinction between "function" and "command". In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-09-03 on LENNART-69DE564 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'