From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31872: 27.0.50; nil is nil but maybe inside a list Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 10:40:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8luuf10.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgbd8z46.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529739550 15439 195.159.176.226 (23 Jun 2018 07:39:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 31872-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tomas Nordin Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 23 09:39:06 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fWd8T-0003xB-Sw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:39:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWdAa-0005bH-Ur for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWdAR-0005ak-1t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWdAM-0003SB-5z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:52842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWdAM-0003S2-24 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fWdAL-0001Yo-SP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:41:01 -0400 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:41:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 31872 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 31872@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, tomasn@posteo.net Original-Received: via spool by 31872-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D31872.15297396285947 (code D ref 31872); Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31872-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Jun 2018 07:40:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60738 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fWd9o-0001Xr-7X for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59167) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fWd9n-0001Xf-8S for 31872-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:40:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWd9e-0003Is-UW for 31872-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36804) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWd9e-0003Ii-RW; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1334 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fWd9e-0006z0-1x; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:40:18 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgbd8z46.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (message from Tomas Nordin on Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:51:37 +0200) 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: 208.118.235.43 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:147754 Archived-At: > From: Tomas Nordin > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:51:37 +0200 > > I was confused some day ago about the effect of providing an explicit > nil for a &rest argument in a call to a comint function. Reading the > documentation on argument lists I thought there might be some room for > improvement (or to make it easier to read). > > Hoping I have not misunderstood the workings of &rest all along, what do > you think about this diff: Thanks, I made a similar change in the manual to clarify the explanation.