From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: locate-library INTERACTIVE-CALL argument
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:35:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F303145.9060905@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.112.1060111669.29551.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Richard Stallman wrote:
> > Since the intent is to display the message
> > when the command is called interactively, even when it is called via a
> > keyboard macro, why not test for those conditions explicitly with
> > interactive-p and executing-macro respectively?
>
> There is no way to do that and get the same condition.
> (or (interactive-p) executing-macro) would be t
> when called from Lisp code that was run by a keyboard macro.
>
> Perhaps there ought to be a way to use interactive-p to get
> such a result. It could be a good feature.
Do you mean adding an &optional KEYBOARD-MACROS-TOO argument, so it
would return non-nil even when called while executing a keyboard macro?
Or do you mean distinguishing different non-nil return values, e.g.
call-interactively vs. execute-kbd-macro (instead of just t)?
> But there may be a better feature. Ever since 1985 I had the idea
> that maybe (interactive...) could be extended with a second argument
> saying how to display the value. That would be complimentary with the
> existing arg saying how to provide the arguments. That might be the
> really clean way to do this job.
I don't know what you mean. (interactive ...) returns a list of values,
which are mapped to the lambda list symbols. Do you mean that it would
accept an &optional KEYBOARD-MACROS-TOO argument, which would determine
what interactive-p returns while executing a keyboard macro?
If so, I think adding an &optional argument to interactive-p is cleaner,
since it's "closer" to the desired effect than adding one to interactive.
Maybe an example would be helpful. The question is, given a command foo
that usually displays a message when called interactively, how to allow
the Emacs Lisp programmer to control whether that messsage is displayed
in these different contexts:
1. C-x ( ... M-x foo RET ... C-x )
should obviously display the message.
2. C-x ( ... M-: (foo ...) RET ... C-x )
should not.
--
Kevin Rodgers
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-31 17:00 locate-library INTERACTIVE-CALL argument Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-02 4:47 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.11.1059814578.2377.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-08-04 16:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-05 19:14 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.112.1060111669.29551.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-08-05 22:35 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-08-06 13:04 ` Richard Stallman
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