From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: read-directory-name Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 20:20:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200505070120.j471Kjq20923@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115429043 24585 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 01:24:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 01:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 03:24:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUE2k-00014f-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 03:23:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUEAZ-0000sk-Cl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 21:31:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUE5I-0004km-7q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 21:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUE5A-0004fU-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 21:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUE4D-00035G-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 21:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUE5a-0007yi-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 21:26:42 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j471L7og001416 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 20:21:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j471Kjq20923; Fri, 6 May 2005 20:20:45 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36789 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36789 The docstring and Elisp documentation of `read-directory-name' conflict. Docstring: Default name to default-dirname if user exits with the same non-empty string that was inserted by this function. (If default-dirname is omitted, dir combined with initial is used, or just dir if initial is nil.) Elisp manual: If both DEFAULT and INITIAL are `nil', this function uses the current buffer's default directory as substitute default, ignoring DIRECTORY. >>From the following ielm run it appears that the Elisp documentation is still correct, even though the code and docstring have changed (on April 23) since I checked all of this quite a while ago: ELISP> default-directory "~/" ELISP> (read-directory-name "Directory: " "/etc/") "~/" ELISP> To get the second line, I just presses RET with /etc/ in the minibuffer. Sincerely, Luc.