From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: perhaps rephrase "misplaced interactive spec" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:55:14 +0200 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87wqa1zkgt.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> References: <87mwbputjq.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408657686 21086 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2014 21:48:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:48:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 21 23:47:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XKaD3-0004pQ-33 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:47:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKaD2-0007rS-NT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38356) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKaCi-0007n6-Eg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKaCZ-0005Lh-E9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from client-194-42-186-216.muenet.net ([194.42.186.216]:57092 helo=jarl.yagibdah.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKaCZ-0005LE-6Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from yun.yagibdah.de ([192.168.3.20]) by jarl.yagibdah.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XKaCX-0003cg-9d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:47:21 +0200 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1XKaCX-0002Kn-5j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:47:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87mwbputjq.fsf@debian.uxu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:06:49 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 194.42.186.216 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99337 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > If have a minor mode (i.e., buffer local) for caps, all > in sweet software [1]. I got it from someone else but I > modified it to auto-reset when one uppercased C > constant or acronym or whatever is typed, so you get > back to non-caps automatically. > > I got the following message when otherwise successfully > and without warnings byte-compiling it: > > ;; caps.el ... Warning: misplaced interactive spec: > ;; `(interactive (list (or current-prefix-arg (quote > ;; toggle))))' > > Turns out, I didn't have a docstring! > [...] > > (define-minor-mode MODE DOC ... > > so I wonder why I just didn't get a > wrong-number-of-arguments? That would have instantly > made it clear. > > Well, just a suggestion. But I think most people will > have a hard time deciphering that kind of error > message. IMO, the error message could (should) say that the documentation string is missing for all instances in which the documentation string is a mandatory argument because it is usually not. Did you make a bug report? Is it optionally possible to get a warning for all instances in which a voluntary docstring is missing? For it appears inconsistent to have the docstring mandatory in some cases and voluntarily in others ... -- GNU Emacs 24.4.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2014-08-17 on yun.yagibdah.de