From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 24369@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24369: Docu of prefix-numeric-value
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 19:44:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cd42ba9-014d-91be-24a4-0077c4e85ac4@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93121a7b-21c7-4174-a295-052f18fde722@default>
On 05.09.2016 17:57, Drew Adams wrote:
>> See recent question at
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2016-09/msg00018.html
>>
>> Please add some explanation WRT treatment of the nil-argument.
>> Also WRT C-u
> What "treatment" are you asking to be explained?
> Just what do you think is missing?
Elisp Info 20.2.2 Code Characters for ‘interactive’
----------------------------------------
p’
The numeric prefix argument
User will expect the argument received by function being consistent with
input, i.e. M-x 2 foo... sends 2, M-x 1 foo ... sends 1. From there
omitting an argument will be expected to send nothing - which isn't the
case.
Likewise with uppecase P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-05 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-05 7:52 bug#24369: Docu of prefix-numeric-value Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 17:44 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2016-09-05 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05 18:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05 21:03 ` Drew Adams
2017-07-17 1:37 ` npostavs
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