Re: [teirllm@dms.auburn.edu: Re: patch for locate.el when called with prefix arg]

[Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>]

Glenn Morris wrote:

   Richard Stallman wrote:

   > Someone please install this.

   installed on trunk and branch

There is one difference between my patch and what you committed,
which may or may not have been intentional:

The first line of my patch talked about the "GNU locate program" to
differentiate it from the Emacs `locate' command, as is done in other
places of locate.el.  You kept the old "GNU locate command" unchanged.
But now the docstring looks confusing:

    "Run the GNU locate command, using an alternate database.

  This command only works if you use GNU locate.  It does not work
  properly if `locate-prompt-for-command' is set to t.  In that
  case, you can just run the regular `locate' command and specify
  the database on the command line."

"This command only works..." now seems to refer to the GNU locate
command, rather than to `locate-in-alternate-database' and
"the regular `locate' command" ccould be interpreted as opposed to
"the GNU locate command".

To summarize, the only difference is:

    "Run the GNU locate command, using an alternate database.

was in my patch:

    "Run the GNU locate program, using an alternate database.

Sincerely,

Luc Teirlinck.