From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: default value with interactive
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:49:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d14e6is1.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a7zi13ze.fsf@zoho.com> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:08:05 +0100")
Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:
> I'm preparing one of my packs for MELPA so I go
> thru the list of formal style
> suggestions [1] ...
>
> One I don't know how to do is when there is
> a default value. The info node that is
> referenced in the suggestion list, namely
>
> (info "(elisp) Programming Tips")
>
> says the prompt string should look like this
>
> Enter the answer (default 42):
>
> However then it says it should be implemented
> like this
>
> (defun foo (pos)
> (interactive
> (list (if SPECIFIED SPECIFIED-POS)))
> (unless pos (setq pos DEFAULT-POS))
> ...)
>
> Note that DEFAULT-POS in this example does not
> appear in the `interactive' form! So how does
> it appear in the prompt string at all?
>
> And even if it did, how do you then get around
> it without having to compute/fetch DEFAULT-POS
> two times? One time for the prompt string, and
> then again to set pos (in the abstract example
> above)?
>
> Is there a real-code example somewhere when
> this is done the right way?
It depends on you case. How does it look like? I think there is no
general answer.
In most situations, the prompt will rather look like
"Position (default: point)"
instead of
"Position (default 15327)".
In other situations, it is not really a problem to let `interactive'
return the default value, because when you repeat the command, you want
to specify the argument anyway, and a reasonable "default" is not
well-defined when repeating.
In some cases, maybe your case is such a case, it is better to read the
arguments in the body of the function and test with
`called-interactively-p' whether that is necessary.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-19 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-19 19:08 default value with interactive Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19 21:49 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2017-11-19 22:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-20 0:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-20 1:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-20 2:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-20 3:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-21 0:31 ` Robert Thorpe
2017-11-21 2:00 ` Emanuel Berg
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