It's me FKtPp ;) writes: ;-) How were you supposed to know? It wasn't documented. I can fix that.... diff -r e9ccbc62f7e7 src/ChangeLog --- a/src/ChangeLog Sun Jun 14 16:08:22 2009 +0100 +++ b/src/ChangeLog Sat Jun 20 03:56:56 2009 +0900 ＠＠ -0,0 +1,5 ＠＠ +2009-06-20 Stephen Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * callint.c (Finteractive): Document that (interactive) must + appear at the "top level" of a function definition to be effective. + diff -r e9ccbc62f7e7 src/callint.c --- a/src/callint.c Sun Jun 14 16:08:22 2009 +0100 +++ b/src/callint.c Sat Jun 20 03:56:56 2009 +0900 ＠＠ -86,6 +86,9 ＠＠ The "call" to `interactive' is actually a declaration rather than a function; it tells `call-interactively' how to read arguments to pass to the function. +The interactive form must appear at the top level of the function body. If + it is wrapped in a `let' or `progn' or similar, Lisp will not even realize + the function is an interactive command! When actually called, `interactive' just returns nil. The argument of `interactive' is usually a string containing a code letter _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches