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: Making a function than can only be used interactively Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 01:13:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87k08rkva7.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87v8sekls5.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4287"; 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:mhyrxDOaNNZFjr/AThyTFKn7NxQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 06 01:14:44 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 1o8rkh-0000r4-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2022 01:14:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42080 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o8rkg-0003I4-IR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o8rk1-0003Hg-P4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:47392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o8rjm-0004jM-Dj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o8rjj-000AMK-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2022 01:13:43 +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_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01, T_SPF_HELO_TEMPERROR=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:138321 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn wrote: >>>> Is it possible to make an interactive function than can >>>> only be used interactively? >>> >>> I'm not sure I understand your question. A function, that >>> may be called interactively, is called a "command" in >>> Emacs. And a command can definitely be called >>> interactively, either by using it's name (using M-x) or >>> binding it to a key. >> >> I do not want people to use the function non-interactively. > > How restrictive is that! :-) But it would be even more restrictive if it wasn't possible to do ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal