Re: Shift selection using interactive spec

[Johan Bockgård]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> The interactive specifications are made part of _functions_ for a
> reason, even though it makes it somewhat harder to extract them
> explicitly (using interactive-form). It is inconsistent to attach
> stuff like that to a property-list that is more or less incidentally
> part of a symbol that might or might not be the accessor to a function
> cell.

Too late ;)

> (call-interactively 'woozle)
>
> currently is equivalent to
>
> (call-interactively (symbol-function 'woozle))

(defun foo (&optional x) (interactive) x)

(fset 'bar 'foo)
(put 'bar 'interactive-form '(interactive (list 1)))

(call-interactively 'bar)
  => 1

(call-interactively (symbol-function 'bar))
  => nil

-- 
Johan Bockgård