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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 13177@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13177: 24.3.50; doc of `read-char-by-name'
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:20:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmwxe9a46.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9D74DAC118B44C3DAF75A8CFC6AE7FB3@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:08:08 -0800")

> The problem for me is that I don't know what the intention (design)
> was or why.  Maybe someone has a good reason to return nil or to
> return a number that does not correspond to a recognized code point?

It's called "read-char-by-name", so the intention is pretty clear: it
should return a char.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-15 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-14  4:01 bug#13177: 24.3.50; doc of `read-char-by-name' Drew Adams
2012-12-15 11:09 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-15 14:54   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-15 15:18     ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-15 15:47       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-15 16:08     ` Drew Adams
2012-12-15 23:20       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-15 23:39         ` Drew Adams
2012-12-16  9:12           ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-16 10:18             ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-16 10:49               ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-16 16:34                 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-16 16:31             ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21  7:53         ` Chong Yidong
2012-12-21  8:04           ` Drew Adams
2012-12-15 15:52   ` Drew Adams
2012-12-15 16:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-15 16:23       ` Drew Adams

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