Re: Making a function than can only be used interactively

[carlmarcos]

Jul 3, 2022, 22:01 by help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org:

>> Thought that (declare (interactive-only <foo>)) specifies <foo> to
>> work only interactively.  Thus, what is the "replacement" about?
>>
>
> No, the function that's declared to be `interactive-only` is the
> function in which you place this `declare`.  The <foo> is used in the
> warning's text to say something like "<blabla> is for interactive only;
> use <foo> instead".
>
> A `grep '(interactive-only' **/*.el` in Emacs's source code will give
> you some examples.
>
I have seen 

(declare (interactive-only t))

(interactive-only "use `font-lock-ensure' or `font-lock-flush' instead."))

(declare (interactive-only delete-char))

I am still unsure because I have done

(declare (interactive-only arktika-automated-workbench))

before `(interactive "P")` in a function `arktika-workbench`.

`arktika-automated-workbench` is the non-interactive function whilst
 `arktika-workbench` is an interactive wrapper.

Yet when I do `(arktika-workbench)` in my init file, the interactive function
`arktika-workbench` still gets executed.


>
>  Stefan
>