From: Javier Olaechea <pirata@gmail.com>
To: 32406@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32406: Simplify explanation of interactive form
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 22:46:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFVS=zA-mqANWeZcFfQRNJ9JcujdssUJhGq1L3dGwBc4zhaBnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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The previous wording said that an interactive form is a declaration
periphrastically ("Its presence serves as flag"). I've done my best to
follow the ChangeLog format
Cheers,
Javier Olaechea
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From bf6e003759275a6a61b50f3b1db12b2a20e312ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Javier Olaechea <pirata@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 22:09:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Reword description of INTERACTIVE form
* doc/lispref/commands.texi (Defining Commands): Reword description of
`interactive` form.
---
doc/lispref/commands.texi | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/lispref/commands.texi b/doc/lispref/commands.texi
index 0753d6f..646dd8e 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/commands.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/commands.texi
@@ -111,9 +111,9 @@ command. The @code{interactive} form must be located at top-level in
the function body, usually as the first form in the body; this applies
to both lambda expressions (@pxref{Lambda Expressions}) and
@code{defun} forms (@pxref{Defining Functions}). This form does
-nothing during the actual execution of the function; its presence
-serves as a flag, telling the Emacs command loop that the function can
-be called interactively. The argument of the @code{interactive} form
+nothing during the actual execution of the function. It is a
+declarations, telling the Emacs command loop that the function can be
+called interactively. The argument of the @code{interactive} form
specifies how the arguments for an interactive call should be read.
@cindex @code{interactive-form} property
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2.9.2
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2018-08-09 3:46 Javier Olaechea [this message]
2018-08-09 15:29 ` bug#32406: Simplify explanation of interactive form Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-02 0:55 ` Stefan Kangas
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