* bug#65064: Macro definition using C-h f
@ 2023-08-05 6:42 Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-05 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2023-08-05 6:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 65064
Have done the following macro, but calling `C-h f tak` shows the definition
as
(tak &rest ARGS)
rather than
(tak &rest _ARGS)
(defmacro tak (&rest _args)
"Performs no action, no matter how many arguments are passed."
nil)
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* bug#65064: Macro definition using C-h f
2023-08-05 6:42 bug#65064: Macro definition using C-h f Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
@ 2023-08-05 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-05 7:39 ` Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-02 16:44 ` Stefan Kangas
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2023-08-05 7:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Heime, Stefan Monnier; +Cc: 65064
tags 65064 notabug
thanks
> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:42:57 +0000
> From: Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Have done the following macro, but calling `C-h f tak` shows the definition
> as
>
> (tak &rest ARGS)
>
> rather than
>
> (tak &rest _ARGS)
>
> (defmacro tak (&rest _args)
> "Performs no action, no matter how many arguments are passed."
>
> nil)
This is a feature: the leading '_' is an indication that the argument
is unused, but the argument's name is 'args', without the underscore.
This is not a bug.
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* bug#65064: Macro definition using C-h f
2023-08-05 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2023-08-05 7:39 ` Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-09 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-02 16:44 ` Stefan Kangas
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2023-08-05 7:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 65064, Stefan Monnier
------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, August 5th, 2023 at 7:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> tags 65064 notabug
> thanks
>
> > Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:42:57 +0000
> > From: Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > the Swiss army knife of text editors" bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > Have done the following macro, but calling `C-h f tak` shows the definition
> > as
> >
> > (tak &rest ARGS)
> >
> > rather than
> >
> > (tak &rest _ARGS)
> >
> > (defmacro tak (&rest _args)
> > "Performs no action, no matter how many arguments are passed."
> >
> > nil)
>
>
> This is a feature: the leading '_' is an indication that the argument
> is unused, but the argument's name is 'args', without the underscore.
>
> This is not a bug.
Don't you need to show users that the argument is unused?
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* bug#65064: Macro definition using C-h f
2023-08-05 7:39 ` Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
@ 2023-08-09 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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From: Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2023-08-09 12:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Heime; +Cc: 65064, Eli Zaretskii
> Don't you need to show users that the argument is unused?
We could add that as a new feature, but usually the docstring says it
instead, so it would often be redundant.
Stefan
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* bug#65064: Macro definition using C-h f
2023-08-05 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-05 7:39 ` Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
@ 2023-09-02 16:44 ` Stefan Kangas
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2023-09-02 16:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 65064-done, Heime, Stefan Monnier
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> tags 65064 notabug
> thanks
>
>> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:42:57 +0000
>> From: Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> Have done the following macro, but calling `C-h f tak` shows the definition
>> as
>>
>> (tak &rest ARGS)
>>
>> rather than
>>
>> (tak &rest _ARGS)
>>
>> (defmacro tak (&rest _args)
>> "Performs no action, no matter how many arguments are passed."
>>
>> nil)
>
> This is a feature: the leading '_' is an indication that the argument
> is unused, but the argument's name is 'args', without the underscore.
>
> This is not a bug.
I'm therefore closing this bug report.
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