bug#17446: 24.4.50; What is the situation around `called-interactively-p'?

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> BTW, for older Emacsen, you can probably use a hack along the lines of
>> the guaranteed 100% untested code below:
>
> I tried to make it work:
>
>    (defun funcall-interactively (fun &rest args)
>      (setq fun (indirect-function fun))
>      (call-interactively
>        (cond
>         ((consp fun)
>          (mapcar (lambda (x)
>                    (if (eq (car-safe x) 'interactive)
>                        `(interactive ',args) x))
>                  fun))
>         ((byte-code-function-p fun)
>          (apply #'make-byte-code
>                 (aref fun 0)
>                 (aref fun 1)
>                 (aref fun 2)
>                 (aref fun 3)
>                 (aref fun 4)
>                 (aref fun 5)
>                 args)))))
>
> Works at least with the count-words case:
>
>   (funcall-interactively 'count-words nil nil) ==> something useful

Great, works also with `count-words-region'.

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