Re: Shift selection using interactive spec

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:39 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

>  > Can you provide an example of how to change the interactive form for
>  > an existing function (without using advice of course)?

>  (put 'forward-char 'interactive-form '(interactive "*p"))

???

But you previously said:

> Attaching information magically to symbols rather than the actual
> function seems much more unwise to me.

In which way is 'interactive-form not that "attaching information
magically to symbols"?

   Juanma