Re: Handling defaults values for both interactive and non-interactive use

[Heime]

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On Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 at 3:37 PM, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> 
wrote:

> How is one to handle setting defaults for both interactive
> and non-interactive use, properly ?
> 
> (defun xiakos-context (search-text &optional n bfrn)
> 
> (setq n (or n 8))
> (setq bfrn (or bfrn "Context"))
> 
> (interactive
> (list
> (read-string " Search Text: ")
> (read-number " Number of Context Lines: ")
> (read-string " Buffer Name: ")))
> 
> (if (string-match-p "^\\s-*$" bfrn) "Context")

Would one handle the default non-interactive and default
interactive separately ?  Or does one handle the defaults 
after having parsed the non-interactive or the interactive 
part ?  In summary, would the default values be handled 
after the interactive clause ?  Or does one set the default
for the interactive part inside the interactive clause ?