Re: (interactive) call or form?

[Emanuel Berg]

Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> During the discussion, I started to think:
> can an "interactive form" (i.e., the thing
> that makes a function a command) be called an
> "interactive call"?

The technical term is "special form",
a primitive function (i.e. written in C, but
callable from Lisp) that has its own rules for
evaluating its arguments.

    (special-form-p #'interactive)     ; t
    (special-form-p #'special-form-p)  ; nil

Use the source, Luke! `interactive' is in
callint.c .

> the article about Emacs and TeX is in the
> final stage of proof-reading.

Great, post it here as well when its 100% done!

> (In case you didn't know, folks at the
> TUGboat are _extremely_ good copyeditors, and
> they caught _a lot_ of
> typos/grammar/stylistic mistakes in the
> paper!)

That's normal. If it isn't like that, something
is wrong with you...

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