From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 29842@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29842: 27.0; `dired-change-marks': args should not be optional
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:14:22 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3ln6lld.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6b4e366-2b7d-4032-8ad0-546372181bd5@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 24 Dec 2017 09:58:02 -0800 (PST)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 1. There is no use of this function in the Emacs Lisp sources that needs
> to have the args be optional.
Yes, it has sense that the arguments be mandatory.
> 2. If (dired-change-marks) is evaluated then you get an error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Format specifier doesn't match
> argument type")
> format("\n%c" "nil")
> dired-change-marks()
> eval((dired-change-marks))
Then the programmer would get the more intuitive
'Wrong number of arguments' error.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-28 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-24 17:58 bug#29842: 27.0; `dired-change-marks': args should not be optional Drew Adams
2017-12-24 18:30 ` Drew Adams
2017-12-28 13:18 ` Tino Calancha
2017-12-28 23:57 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-19 15:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2017-12-28 13:14 ` Tino Calancha [this message]
2020-01-19 14:45 ` Stefan Kangas
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87y3ln6lld.fsf@gmail.com \
--to=tino.calancha@gmail.com \
--cc=29842@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=drew.adams@oracle.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).