Re: (interactive) arguments

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2020-01-02, at 17:57, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org> wrote:

>> On Jan 3, 2020, at 1:30, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
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>>> Now, when I use the "expression" version, it looks like the arguments are not assigned to variables as they are input, so for ex, I can't use a default value for the input based on the first input...
>>> 
>>> Is there a way around that ?
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>> Does this help?
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>> http://mbork.pl/2015-09-12_A_trick_with_argument_for_interactive_call
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> → 
>> The point is that the form right after interactive should return a list of two elements, and that is everything interactive cares for – what the (local) variables inside let* are called is none if its business.
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> That's really clever ! :)
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>> Now I’m quite sure that you could cook up a macro interactive*, which would wrap all this in a nice syntax. That, though, I will try some other day.
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> Have you tried ?

Nope, and now that I know more about Elisp, I'm 99% sure it's
impossible, since `interactive' is not "evaluated" in any sense.  But
I'd like to hear from someone more competent.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl