From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggest: dont declare interactive-p obsolete Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:47:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83d1v598zp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wpte80t2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447955290 18734 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2015 17:48:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 18:48:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZzTJR-0001VS-RK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:48:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzTJR-0005mi-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:48:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzTJO-0005lw-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:47:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzTJK-0002LB-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:47:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:56723) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzTJK-0002Ks-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NY200100P5HLV00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:47:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NY2001WRPFTM300@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:47:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194806 Archived-At: > From: raman > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:32:29 -0800 > > Cleaning up those places would be a good first step. > > Then we could nuke the definition in subr.el. We need to announce that first. So it probably won't happen in Emacs 25.1. > At that point, we should still revisit what the right API to expose > for this functionality is -- as others have pointed out-- the > present option > > (called-interactively-p 'interactive ) > > is awkward and hard to discover as an elisp developer -- and even if you > discovered it -- you'd run screaming in fear. We could work on improving this situation regardless of what happens with interactive-p, and when. We could start right now. Thanks.