Subject: bug#17446: 24.4.50; What is the situation around `called-interactively-p'?

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 02:45:42 -0400

> (apply #'funcall-interactively (car newcmd) (cdr newcmd))

No, `newcmd' is an expression, so (cdr newcommand) contains arguments
that need to be evaluated.  In some/many cases this evaluation is
trivial (the args are self-quoting, like nil or integers), but sometimes
the args can be things like (region-beginning).

> >    (defun funcall-interactively (fun &rest args)
[sample hack to define funcall-interactively in terms of call-interactively]
> This won't work IMO, why fun would be a cons or a byte-code-function ?

These are the only interesting cases.  The other cases (subrp and
symbolp, AFAICT) are trivial.

        Stefan