Re: Prefix Argument and optional argument

[Michael Heerdegen]

Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:

> Have recently seen that compiling
>
> (defun poke (prefix)
>   "TODO."
>   (interactive "P")
> ...)
>
> gives 
>
> Warning: misplaced interactive spec: ‘(interactive P)’

If the order docstring + interactive spec is correct (as above), that
only happens here when the function body is empty (i.e. nothing follows
the interactive spec).  Did that happen in other cases - do you have an
example?

> Is this associated with trying to call the function non-interactively
> or because the prefix (C-u) is not always used when running the function
> interactively?

No.

Michael.