From: Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 65064@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#65064: Macro definition using C-h f
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 07:39:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PaBBKTPlEQry5i2wi7_DXrmUOtsG3ZFzGChl__X65npK4ebFHIw68WF3vN3cjQVWJNaqLV_61YFLO2ny1WJAvj7i38NV0L0FN3KKtF-_fX4=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83leeqt0wg.fsf@gnu.org>
------- 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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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
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