bug#45765: [PATCH] 28.0.50; Change default-directory before prompting in project-compile

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 13.01.2021 21:46, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
> > I'm not a big fan of the 'interactive' argument. It could be replaced
> > by using (called-interactively-p 'interactive), though I'm not sure
> > how idiomatic that is.
>
> Not necessarily a fan either, but my takeaway from recent discussions on
> emacs-devel is that the argument is preferred to called-interactively-p,
> which should only be used when a function's arglist is set in stone.
>
> <E1k7A3J-0005gG-4K@fencepost.gnu.org>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-08/msg00463.html
>
> <jwvzh6ubtbe.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-08/msg00472.html
>
> I see a few dozen hits for "&optional \([\w-]+ \)*interactive)" under
> lisp/, so it seems to be an established practice.

All right, that makes sense. It will help the next time such question 
comes up.

> PS: I've just seen Juri's reponse in bug#45765#26; I'm glad there is a
> consensus on the first patch, because after looking at more in-tree
> examples of optional INTERACTIVE arguments, I found myself agonizing
> over spelling the spec (list nil nil t), '(nil nil t), or "i\ni\np".

I know the feeling ;-)

Patch installed, closing. Thanks again.