Re: File modes facilities.

[Kim F. Storm]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Below is a _much_better_ patch which allows ANY function to have its
>> interactive specification overridden, and consequently you can make
>> any function into a command.
>
> Indeed, this is much better.
> The only problem I still see with it is that it interacts poorly
> with aliases.

Given your examples, I'd say that it's a feature rather than
a bug :-)

But admittedly, I didn't think about aliases.  But there is a way to
get the best of both approaches:

Suppose A is an alias for C.

Now, if A has overriding interactive spec, use that.
Else if C has overriding interactive spec, use that.
Else use original interactive spec for C (if any).

So this would actually work:

>     (defalias 'load-library 'load "docstring")
>     (defalias 'load-file 'load "other docstring")
>     (put 'load-library 'interactive '(...))
>     (put 'load-file 'interactive '(...))

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk