Re: featurep interactive? [was: How to turn off ^M end of line ...?]
On 22 Apr 2002, stephen(a)xemacs.org wrote:
>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic
<hniksic(a)arsdigita.com> writes:
Hrvoje> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>> Shouldn't a useful debugging tool like featurep be interactive,
>> or have an interactive version?
Hrvoje> I don't think it makes sense to pollute the command
Hrvoje> namespace with stuff that will only ever be needed for
Hrvoje> debugging. It's not *that* hard to enter M-: (featurep
Hrvoje> 'foo).
OK. We'll just have to train "our staff on c.e.x" to say so, since
we're getting a fair number of people who do stuff like M-x featurep,
and it doesn't work for them.
When playing around with new features that I run across I often wind
up starting to type M-x require <feature>, before I remember that
require is not interactive. Things like feature and require that deal
with the lisp 'environment' should be interactive. maybe.
And maybe provide a diagnose package with this stuff in menus.
Not quite sure where you mean here...
-jeff