# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1224102086 0
# Node ID fa98223dc5ff55abeedf64279462e2b46e2387ec
# Parent  436d98f3ba2233c426bcf62f10a68ff24626e9ba
(Defining Commands, Using Interactive): The interactive-form of a function
can be added via its symbol's property.

diff -r 436d98f3ba22 -r fa98223dc5ff doc/lispref/commands.texi
--- a/doc/lispref/commands.texi	Wed Oct 15 20:20:39 2008 +0000
+++ b/doc/lispref/commands.texi	Wed Oct 15 20:21:26 2008 +0000
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@
 @cindex interactive function
 
   A Lisp function becomes a command when its body contains, at top
-level, a form that calls the special form @code{interactive}.  This
+level, a form that calls the special form @code{interactive}, or if
+the function's symbol has an @code{interactive-form} property.  This
 form does nothing when actually executed, but its presence serves as a
 flag to indicate that interactive calling is permitted.  Its argument
 controls the reading of arguments for an interactive call.
@@ -141,6 +142,11 @@
 @code{interactive} form are executed, but at this time
 @code{interactive} simply returns @code{nil} without even evaluating its
 argument.
+
+@cindex @code{interactive-form}, function property
+An interactive form can be added to a function post-facto via the
+@code{interactive-form} property of the function's symbol.
+@xref{Symbol Plists}.
 @end defspec
 
 There are three possibilities for the argument @var{arg-descriptor}: