Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode

[Stefan Kangas]

jao <jao@gnu.org> writes:

>> The argument to `interactive' is optional, so it'd be
>>
>>   (defun foo2 ()
>>    (interactive nil c-mode)
>>
>> in most of the cases, which seemed less than ideal.  But on the other
>> hand, not introducing a new keyword would perhaps help with reading
>> comprehension.
>
> it's perhaps more tricky, but it could also be
>
>      (interactive 'c-mode)
>
> which is distinguisable from a string or a form:
>
>      (interactive "p")
>      (interactive (list a b))

FWIW, I like the new syntax more.  But this is all rather subjective.

One thing is that "command" is much more obvious to read than
"interactive", since it is after all about making "commands" and not
"interactives".