Re: Suggest: dont declare interactive-p obsolete

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: raman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:32:29 -0800
> 
> Cleaning up those places would be a good first step.
> 
> Then we could nuke the definition in subr.el.

We need to announce that first.  So it probably won't happen in Emacs
25.1.

> At that point, we should still revisit what the right API to expose
> for this functionality is -- as others have pointed out-- the
> present option
> 
> (called-interactively-p 'interactive )
> 
> is awkward and hard to discover as an elisp developer -- and even if you
> discovered it -- you'd run screaming in fear.  

We could work on improving this situation regardless of what happens
with interactive-p, and when.  We could start right now.

Thanks.