Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> Sorry, I just meant that 'interactive' will no longer be extensible,
> whereas 'declare' is inherently extensible.

That's true.  I originally went with a new directive, `command', instead
of extending `interactive', partly because of that, but it then didn't
seem like a very compelling thing -- we haven't extended `interactive'
in...  er...  many decades, so the conclusion from that might be that
it's perhaps not likely that we'll want to further extend it.

On the other hand, if that's a commonly held worry, we could change the
signature from &optional form &rest modes to &optional form modes.

And finally, if it turns out that we super-duper do need to extend
`interactive' later, then we can just introduce `command' instead.

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