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Re: `interactive-form` symbol property


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: `interactive-form` symbol property
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:32:45 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Interesting case, indeed.
>> 
>> You can do
>> 
>>     (defun my-foo ()
>>       (interactive (advice-eval-interactive-spec
>>                     (cadr (interactive-form 'bar))))
>>       ...)
>> 
>> Maybe we should promote `advice-eval-interactive-spec` to
>> `eval-interactive-spec`?
> Any reason you dislike the interactive-form property so much that you
> are willing to promote anything else instead? ;-)

The main reason is NIH, of course.

But more generally when we have a mechanism (advice) that provides
a superset of the other (interactive-form), I think it's always
worthwhile to try and see if we really need to keep both.


        Stefan



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