From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#57937: 29.0.50; Improve doc of (interactive current-prefix-arg ...) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:27:28 +0300 Message-ID: <83czbqye3z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83h713xr0q.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13087"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 57937@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 20 04:28:47 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oaT0A-0003HQ-VB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 04:28:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46508 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaT09-0005kK-QL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49086) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaSzS-0004uF-Gz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaSzS-0005U5-54 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oaSzR-0004qV-Pu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:28:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 02:28:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57937 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 57937-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57937.166364085118590 (code B ref 57937); Tue, 20 Sep 2022 02:28:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57937) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Sep 2022 02:27:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55679 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oaSyx-0004pm-Dz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36184) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oaSyw-0004pZ-3G for 57937@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50772) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaSyq-0005Lv-Px; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:27:24 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=5UdPi91P1P80CFFiWZ+ev1QfZ2GOpoNLlFXlbO2s5Ks=; b=Adn2Px39ALqJvwcHaOXl HtsRgXlMq8FWKohNX+kcMVO2bwZdIY730vroLJbNJ7Y6YPbrIwDUAvWaXIGqSn8qLddOZDuGkDbCX VJZcZJdZhYfUbd5gSsByACYbS8wZopA+rN/LatKj8axu2XNsjQzAouUnQ7+o3eowFZ7BVbykcgp+f RwRYc7+za+ozhvg/Jcx4UKmpfawSCImvRPbBUyEdtDRgvLaNMzv7lMnub0SmnRH3FLHuEXPZmWG6f KKCMaLz1GZPMQNa0Qm6HFiQj/s8i/4zi+jVgwS7xVgVTjKmjjIsWoHLWIw2jmb3r8PkgcpEpULvaX BTgNgkaxDuE+Sg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1055 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaSyq-00072n-4C; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:27:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:35:12 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:243141 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:35:12 -0400 > Cc: 57937@debbugs.gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > There is already such a pointer there: > > > > There are three possibilities for the argument ARG-DESCRIPTOR: > > > > • It may be omitted or ‘nil’; ... > > • It may be a string; ... > > I was thinking of this item: > > • It may be a Lisp expression that is not a string; ... > > Here, I'd like to see an example like: > > (interactive current-prefix-arg) > > and a brief pointer to `(elisp) Prefix Command Arguments'. That comes _after_ the above-mention place, which already points to that node, so what would be the point and the importance of repeating the reference? Using current-prefix-arg in a Lisp expression is not different from using any other Lisp variable.