Re: Help setting nadvice for indent-region

[Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>]

Neat, I hit a brick-wall there.

Advising interactive gives: "advice--normalize: Advice impossible:
interactive is a special form"

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:58 PM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Aha.. looks like the check_mark in callint.c is raising the error even
> before the advice sets the args as the call_interactively's 'r' case is
> activated. That's because indent-region has (interactive "r\nP").
>
> So looks like I'll need to advice the whole interactive? What would be a
> better solution?
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:49 PM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to advice indent-region so that if a region is not select, it
>> indents between (point-min) and (point-max).
>>
>> So I have this:
>>
>> =====
>>
>> (defun adv/indent-region (args)
>>   (when (not mark-active)
>>     (setq args (list (point-min) (point-max))))
>>   args)
>> (advice-add 'indent-region :filter-args #'adv/indent-region)
>>
>> =====
>>
>> This usually works, unless I have just launched a fresh buffer in which
>> there is no mark set.
>>
>> If I do M-: (mark) in that buffer, I get nil.
>> In that case, if I call M-x indent-region (with no region selected), I
>> get this error backtrace:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "The mark is not set now, so there
>> is no region")
>>   call-interactively(indent-region nil nil)
>>   command-execute(indent-region)
>>
>> If it looks like the error is triggered by call-interactively even before
>> the advice gets to do its thing.
>>
>> How can I resolve this using nadvice?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kaushal Modi
>>
>