Re: position on changing defaults?

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I can not see what the advantage with an interactive spec over a 
>     property on the function name is. Could you please tell?
>
> The interactive spec is where you specify other things about how to
> call the function interactively.  So it is a cleaner interface to put
> this in the same place.

What about commands which have a lisp form as interactive spec?

>
>     And for the actual implementation of activating/deactivating the mark I 
>     can not see the advantage of doing it directly in the command loop 
>     instead of in special hooks before and after pre/post-command-hook. 
>
> Using those hooks is unreliable and slow.

That's simply not true!
CUA mode uses them, and it works fast and flawlessly.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk