Re: Emacsy: Context Sensitive Commands Design Question

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Shane Celis <address@hidden>
() Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:57:00 -0400

   6. Tag commands as special procedures [...] Implement "command?"

   CON: Adding something to the procedure makes wrapping commands in
   other lambdas awkward.  Might necessitate a define-command,
   lambda-command, method-command, which I'd prefer to avoid.

Why would you prefer to avoid this?

   What would you do?

I'd explore option 6, starting w/:

 (define command? (make-object-property))

I think object properties are better suited than procedure properties
after observing this in the (Emacs) *scratch* buffer:

 (commandp [42])
 t

It would be cool for Emacsy to have good "keyboard macros" support.
Many a non-programmer fall into consciousness via such, in Emacs.

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