From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: extra-interactive functions
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:11:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87boyegajh.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4DE8FD71.1000004@gmx.at
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:27:45 +0200 martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:
>>>> Also, if `find-file' should be avoided in ELisp generally, the docstring
>>>> should say so, like it does for many other functions.
>>
mr> Indeed.
>>
>> But that's tedious to do by hand. If we tag the function symbol
>> (e.g. `switch-to-buffer') with some extra-interactive property, we can
>> tag all the functions that call it as well at compile time. Wouldn't
>> that be nicer? The docstring can then automatically say "unsafe to call
>> because it calls `switch-to-buffer'" which is nice and more helpful.
mr> There are only very few interactive functions that should be allowed to
mr> call `switch-to-buffer'. `find-file' may fit into this category because
mr> that's what users traditionally expect it to do (although I plan to have
mr> it call a function `pop-to-buffer-same-window' sooner or later). In the
mr> distant future there should be no function calling `switch-to-buffer' at
mr> all.
Thank you for explaining.
You're sort of side-stepping my suggestion of a special tag for
functions that should not be called from ELisp. Is it because you think
it's too unusual to be useful, or something else?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-03 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 23:21 [RFC PATCH] setting indentation styles via `c-file-style' fails to actually change indentation Nix
2011-05-18 0:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-18 20:28 ` Nix
2011-05-18 21:08 ` ERT indentation testing (was: [RFC PATCH] setting indentation styles via `c-file-style' fails to actually change indentation) Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-18 22:19 ` ERT indentation testing Stefan Monnier
2011-05-19 10:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-19 11:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-01 21:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-02 18:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 0:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-03 11:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 12:12 ` martin rudalics
2011-06-03 15:06 ` extra-interactive functions (was: ERT indentation testing) Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 15:27 ` extra-interactive functions martin rudalics
2011-06-03 16:11 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-06-03 18:59 ` martin rudalics
2011-06-03 19:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 20:54 ` martin rudalics
2011-06-08 10:44 ` ERT indentation testing Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-08 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-09 16:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-10 20:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-01 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH] setting indentation styles via `c-file-style' fails to actually change indentation Nix
2011-06-02 12:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-06-02 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-02 16:47 ` Nix
2011-06-02 21:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-06-02 21:43 ` Nix
2011-06-05 15:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-24 10:07 ` bug#7570: " Kan-Ru Chen
2011-07-24 10:07 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2011-08-05 14:14 ` Nix
2011-05-18 3:27 ` Glenn Morris
2011-05-18 11:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
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