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Re: Shift selection using interactive spec


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Shift selection using interactive spec
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:48:31 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> I've long thought about giving `interactive' a second argument that
> would specify how to display the command's return value.  This would
> make it convenient to write commands that would return certain
> information as a value when called from Lisp, and display the
> same information when called interactively.

This is an interesting feature.  Just as a first argument of
`interactive' specifies command's input, a second argument would
specify its output.  I think this pair of input/output arguments
of `interactive' makes sense.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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