From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making `interactive' conditional Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:46:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mvszdp6b.fsf@gnus.org> <8737u9kv6f.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87fuy7hdc6.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> <87bn8vh8q4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <4002fc97-5629-4367-8b8f-48b659fefdce@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452483999 26164 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2016 03:46:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 03:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 11 04:46:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aITR8-0003kk-MH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:46:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITR7-00026M-Px for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:46:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITR5-00026C-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:46:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITR4-0001TI-G3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:46:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aITQw-0001QM-IK; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aITQw-0000xg-2c; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:46:18 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 10 Jan 2016 10:02:55 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198010 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I think it is a bad idea to make the interactive nature of a command conditional. If the user types a command's name after M-x, it should always call the command. I think it is reasonable to omit commands from M-x's completion, but refusing to run them is going to far in imposing on the user. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.