From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 22560@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22560: forward-word etc should be interactive-only
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:15:17 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <862b3779-8af0-42b6-9e59-7012e4d10ef4@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sopowcb359.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> The new implementation of subword-mode means that forward-word etc need
> to be marked as interactive-only, all existing uses of such functions
> need to be reviewed, and the issue needs to be mentioned in NEWS.
>
> See bug#17558, where this was all pointed out.
Commands such as `forward-word' are explicitly counted on by
thingatpt.el and 3rd-party libraries to be used non-interactively.
The thingatpt code moves forward and backward over things using
`forward-*' and `backward-*' commands noninteractively.
Why would/should/must we consider such a command to be
"interactive-only"?
I see this in Emacs 25 NEWS:
** New properties that can be specified with `declare':
*** (interactive-only INSTEAD), says to use INSTEAD for non-interactive use.
Presumably this means that if you declare `forward-word' as
`interactive-only' then you will at the same time provide an
alternative that replaces it for noninteractive use.
If you do that, you will break 3rd-party code (I assume that you
will update the thingatpt.el code to use the new replacement).
Why not instead create a new _command_ to replace the _interactive_
use? That likely breaks no code, except for key bindings, which
are quickly discovered by users and updated.
Why would limiting function `forward-ANYTHING' to interactive
use be TRT?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-04 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-04 21:02 bug#22560: forward-word etc should be interactive-only Glenn Morris
2016-02-04 21:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-02-05 7:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-05 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-05 16:41 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-05 16:44 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-05 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 20:16 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-05 22:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 22:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-08 17:48 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-10 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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