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: Re: read-directory-name Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 20:48:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200505070148.j471mtT20941@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200505070120.j471Kjq20923@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115431443 29354 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 02:04:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 02:04:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 04:04:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUEfg-0004Wi-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 04:04:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUEnO-0006K7-Pl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 22:11:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUEj4-0004yt-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 22:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUEj1-0004xZ-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 22:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUEgY-0003pk-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 22:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUEWr-0007Nu-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 21:54:53 -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 j471nHog001489; Fri, 6 May 2005 20:49:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j471mtT20941; Fri, 6 May 2005 20:48:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu In-reply-to: <200505070120.j471Kjq20923@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Fri, 6 May 2005 20:20:45 -0500 (CDT)) 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:36792 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36792 >>From my prior message: >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. Of course, here is the read-directory-name code: (unless dir (setq dir default-directory)) (unless default-dirname (setq default-dirname (if initial (concat dir initial) default-directory))) (read-file-name prompt dir (or default-dirname (if initial (expand-file-name initial dir) dir)) mustmatch initial 'file-directory-p)) If both initial and default-dirname are nil, the second unless-form default-dirname to default-directory. The or-form then passes default-directory to read-file-name. From the docstring, it would appear that this is not intentional. Sincerely, Luc.