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On Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:06:24 AM UTC-7, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

> 
> First, 'C-h f interactive' and also (info "(elisp) Using Interactive").
> 
> Next, experiment.  Next, read some source.  Next, post questions on the
> 
> discrepencies and lacunae you might (think you) experience.  That's it.


Well, even after looking at the docs, I'm still looking for an answer to the same question: Is there a way to call interactive to elicit only _some_ of the arguments of a function.

Alternately, if there's a standard workaround for this, I'd be interested in that too.