From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 11534@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11534: 24.0.97; `dired-get-marked-files' does not behave as documented
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:14:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob2f30e8.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF606E42BC284066AD2C4F85B1365832@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 21 May 2012 11:31:02 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> emacs -Q
>
> Put point on any file line.
>
> M-: (dired-get-marked-files)
>
> It returns the name of that line's file.
>
> But the doc string says this about argument ARG, which is nil in this
> case:
>
> Optional second argument ARG, if non-nil, specifies files near
> point instead of marked files. It usually comes from the prefix
> argument.
> If ARG is an integer, use the next ARG files.
> Any other non-nil value means to use the current file instead.
>
> It does not explicitly say anything about what happens when ARG is nil
> (and no files are marked). But a reader could reasonably assume that
> none of what happens when ARG is non-nil would happen.
I've removed " non-nil" so that the documentation says what it does.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 18:31 bug#11534: 24.0.97; `dired-get-marked-files' does not behave as documented Drew Adams
2014-02-10 7:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2014-02-10 18:03 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-11 11:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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