Marcin Borkowski <mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes: > On 2014-12-08, at 08:35, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >> [...] You could do that in a lambda, but >> it probably won't accept a non-interactive function, [...] > > Out of curiosity: can't a lambda (in e.g. global-set-key) be made > interactive? I did this right now: > > (global-set-key (kbd "C-z C-s") (lambda () (interactive) (message "It can be > done!"))) > > and it seems to work. Is it going to change e.g. in future Emacs > versions, IOW, is it deprecated or something?
No, you're quite right, I was just answering off the cuff, without thorough thought. It is indeed possible to stick (interactive) inside of a lambda, though intuition tells me that that it's not generally good practice -- Emacs' introspection functions will probably at some point bark at you for not having a named function, and it will make it harder to use the built-in help functions to figure out what's going on. But yes, you're right, it's definitely possible. E
