Interactive vs. non-interactive mode.

[joshuaguerin]

The current version was written in a way where whatever information could be automatically parsed is generated automatically, and other info is typically pulled from the user by prompts in the minbuffer. I don't think we necessarily dislike this approach, but some users may want the ability to set interactive off deliberately in a .emacs file (i.e., just dump a documentation skeleton after parsing).

[k-ericson]

perhaps done with an optional argument to the commands as written?
if that argument is present, just dump a skeleton?

[joshuaguerin]

Actually, I'm not certain that an argument is needed. My hypothesis is that this is likely an all or nothing scenario for most developers (i.e., I either want the goods or don't want it at all). If that is the case they could set a flag in their .emacs file to change the behavior from the default. Like (setq doqmnt_inter nil).

I'm thinking that tackling #3, #4, or #5, would result in similarly set configuration variables.