Re: Brittleness of called-interactively-p

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If I understand right, an instrumenting code must be aware of the variable
  > name used internally by a function. That is, when writing defadvice I should
  > look inside foo in order to figure out that internally it's using in-foo,

Yes.  However, there needs to be a way to find that out
in order for calls to the function to bind that variable.

If we provide a convenient function to get that variable name, perhaps
called called-interactively-binding-variable, it will be easy
for advising and other instrumenters to do what is needed.

Advising has to do SOMETHING about this, because if the advice makes a
wrapper, and it is necessary for that wrapper to bind the variable (or
whatever is used) _instead_ of the original function.

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