Re: Advicing the `interactive' form of a command

On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM Roland Winkler <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, May 03 2026, Stéphane Marks wrote:
> > If you put a print statement in your advice, you'll see
> > it does work for sure.
>
> For me, the print statement happens to late: from what I can tell,
> the advice goes around the body of the adviced function.  So I can
> print, in particular, the args passed to the body.
>
> > But I sense that maybe you want to advise 'read-buffer-to-switch
> > instead.  Give that a try and see if that does what you're looking
> > for.
>
> Thanks, this is indeed a clean solution for my particular problem
> that works as expected.  However, this will not work for other commands
> if the command uses a more sophisticated interactive spec without
> delegating this work to a separate noninteractive function like
> `read-buffer-to-switch'.
>

I'm sure with some experimentation you'll arrive at what you're looking for.