From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:52:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356893586 25558 80.91.229.3 (30 Dec 2012 18:53:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:53:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12351@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 30 19:53:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TpO0e-00062t-DD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:53:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35571 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpO0P-0001zW-Fl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35715) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpO0M-0001zQ-H0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:53:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpO0G-0006Tj-Ia for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55224) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpO0G-0006Te-FH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:52:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TpO1J-0001Ax-IP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:54:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:54:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12351 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12351-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12351.13568936004458 (code B ref 12351); Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:54:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12351) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Dec 2012 18:53:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37242 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TpO0e-00019r-AA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:53:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:45421) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TpO0c-00019k-2m for 12351@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:53:19 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpNzX-0007oJ-TE; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:52:11 -0500 X-Spook: S Key blackjack AIEWS secure AGT. AMME airframe Gazprom X-Ran: )2JJj6[>[f>NVL)&N9AZ'QoD)eZIQt,k2Rh_|R":#P4ln@]U1C6h5"3@:pj3@V^l5i3^n] X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Dave Abrahams's message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:58:53 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:69193 Archived-At: Dave Abrahams wrote: > (parse-colon-path ":") yields (nil nil) but there's nothing in the > docstring to indicate that empty path entries will get turned into nil. > Either the docstring needs to be updated, or parse-colon-path should > return (delq nil cd-list). Making a change equivalent to the latter has caused http://debbugs.gnu.org/13296 Obviously we need the nils to remain, so I will put them back and just mention that empty elements return nil. It's not worth handling the minor aesthetic annoyance of (nil nil) specially.