From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Suppress user-prompting when calling commands in programs Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:49:27 +0200 Message-ID: <871tuskdx4.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87r42skjd8.fsf@gmail.com> <83k38kx5y8.fsf@gnu.org> <7d140fb3-6b45-4e37-8109-0f794d907b09@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402674618 27020 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2014 15:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:50:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 13 17:50:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1WvTk2-0002m2-Up for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:50:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59768 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvTk2-0003sz-KK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46727) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvTjm-0003se-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvTjg-0008L2-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvTjg-0008Kn-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WvTjb-0002OJ-2i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:49:43 +0200 Original-Received: from e178190046.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.190.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:49:43 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178190046.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:49:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178190046.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O7TRnIIhKUtwTTZdx7/CYute/IU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98213 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> Indeed, the prompting should normally take place in the `interactive' >> spec, but the above is sadly pretty common. > > File a code bug / enhancement request for `foo'... Well, I don't want to be PITA, and there are quite some examples for this e.g. in Org-mode (thats why most Org commands are directly bound to keys without having to deal with function args)... To me this looks more like a 'political decision' from upstream (don't do this, its not acceptable, and fix it when you have done it) than like a bug report. > Sure there is. If `bar' is a dynamic variable, at least. [...] > None of this is pretty. But it's not complicated either. And yes, > the `foo' code should be rewritten in one of the ways already > suggested (file a bug). Pretty or not, thanks for the working and easy-to-digest recipe, very helpful! -- cheers, Thorsten