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

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sun 14 Feb 2021 at 03:45PM +01, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> "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.

I'd suggest going with this but making modes be a single symbol or a
list of symbols, since having just a single mode is going to be the most
common case.

-- 
Sean Whitton