From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, schwab@suse.de,
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
37883@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:04:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtjfeti3.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r231w6w1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:45:18 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Would someone like to suggest a documentation change to clarify these
> issues?
The semantics of INITIAL are very odd, and I'm not sure they can be
explained. So I've now added some hand-waving to the doc read-file-name
doc string, which should at least allow the users to know that it's a
bit odd.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-28 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-23 9:23 bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-23 9:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-10-23 12:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-23 13:20 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-23 14:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-23 16:24 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-25 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-28 16:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-23 15:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
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