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27.0.50; interactive spec with cl-defgeneric/method

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33170 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33170: 27.0.50; interactive spec with cl-defgeneric/method
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:54:04 +0300

> From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:19:44 -0500
> 
> I'm struggling to understand how to make functions defined with
> cl-defgeneric interactive:
> 
> (require 'cl-lib)
> 
> (cl-defgeneric my/test ()
>   (interactive)
>   (message "generic"))
> 
> If you evaluate that you can do M-x my/test, as expected. However, as
> soon as you evaluate this:
> 
> (cl-defgeneric my/test (&context (major-mode emacs-lisp-mode))
>   (interactive)
>   (message "method"))
> 
> M-x my/test no longer works.

'&context' is documented only as part of cl-defmethod, so why are you
trying to use it with cl-defgeneric?

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