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bug#3984: 23.0.96; defadvice of call-interactively defeats interactive-p: msg#00646

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Subject: bug#3984: 23.0.96; defadvice of call-interactively defeats interactive-p

> > Can someone please explain why this happens, or how to work
> around it?
>
> Because the implementation of interactive-p (and
> called-interactively-p)
> is brittle: it looks at the latest stack frames to see the name of the
> caller, so if you add things between the call to `call-interactively'
> and the corresponding function call, it gets confused.
>
> To work around it, don't use `interactive-p' and instead add
> an optional
> argument (call it `interactive') to your function and pass it an
> explicit non-nil value from the interactive spec.

Unfortunately, the code with `interactive-p' is not mine. The defadvice is mine,
but it needs to work for user functions, including those that call
`interactive-p' or `called-interactively-p'.

Is there no way the Emacs implementation could be fixed to handle this better?
Couldn't it take into consideration the `ad-*' stuff that results from advising
`call-interactively'? IOW, couldn't it look for `call-interactively' in its
advised form also?




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