Re: how-many/count-matches for non-interactive use

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thinking more about it, I belive that the current behaviour of
> interactive-p makes good sense in cases where it is used to determine
> whether a command should do sit-for or output a message, as those are
> typically not desireable during macro execution.

Sit-for doesn't wait when executed from a macro.  As for messages you might
be right in some (maybe even in many) cases but I doubt it matters much
since unless the message is the last in the macro it will just be
overwritten anyway.


        Stefan