From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Prefix Argument and optional argument Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:12:58 +0200 Message-ID: <874jztez2d.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87h73t5gyi.fsf@web.de> <878rp5f7vh.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qux5dbs.fsf@web.de> <87sfndkrso.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15037"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:cFE1Uahz/SRQhP93nV/HuGrGyD4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 17:13:56 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9TCV-0003jR-Cd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:13:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46166 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9TCU-0006md-9j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:13:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9TBn-0006kc-1E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9TBk-0005G3-5h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9TBh-0002lt-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:13:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138355 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: >> (defun poke (prefix) >> "TODO." >> (interactive "P") >> ...) >> >> gives >> >> Warning: misplaced interactive spec: ‘(interactive P)’ > > I don't get this warning here. Instead I get two arnings, > one about the fact that `prefix` is not used, and the other > about the fact that `...` is not a known variable. Do C-u M-x checkdoc-current-buffer RET and learn that it also has a docstring problem: Argument ‘prefix’ should appear (as PREFIX) in the doc string At the stage when it does nothing, it seems 'poke' has so many problems already! I also don't get any warnings but the ones you mention, Warning: Unused lexical argument `prefix' Warning: reference to free variable ‘...’ and that's on GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2022-05-28 [commit 707124d2b92780b4f21d72c7c62899e074fa8ced] (Love the 'ever' command BTW, https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/meta.el ) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal