From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34794: 26.1; doc of `read-buffer' Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 18:54:10 +0200 Message-ID: <831s3g7zv1.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="219280"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 34794@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 09 17:55:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fFi-000uwj-C3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 17:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fFh-0001j8-9l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fFZ-0001hv-KV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:55:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fFY-0002Ub-9M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fFY-0002UX-5I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fFY-0007or-14 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:55:04 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 34794 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 34794-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B34794.155215047430015 (code B ref 34794); Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 34794) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Mar 2019 16:54:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37320 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fF4-0007o3-7X for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55018) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fF2-0007nq-Jn for 34794@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60611) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fEx-00027v-2P; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:54:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4072 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h2fEv-0003lq-OH; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:54:26 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 9 Mar 2019 08:31:38 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:156189 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 08:31:38 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > > AFAICT neither the doc string nor the Elisp manual states what the > default value is if argument DEF is nil. IOW, what is the default > buffer name if no explicit default is provided? It seems (without > thorough testing) to be the value of `(buffer-name (current-buffer))'. No, it's an empty string, and I think the doc string already conveys that. (Note that if read-buffer-function is non-nil, what happens then is entirely up to that function, which doesn't make it easy to say exactly how DEF is handled.)