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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: split-window as a command
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:29:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5167D3E8.8000903@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppy0p4cm.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box>

 > The doc string of split-window says "Interactively, SIZE is the prefix
 > argument."  But in fact, invoking split-window with a prefix argument
 > has no effect, because its interactive spec is "i".  Maybe this is just
 > a doc bug, since, when split-window was still a C function, its doc
 > string said "Interactively, all arguments are nil."  But I don't see why
 > it is a command at all any more: invoked interactively, it has exactly
 > the same effect as invoking split-window-below without a prefix
 > argument, and since the latter does not ignore a prefix argument passed
 > to it, it does more than interactively called split-window.  So it
 > appears to be superfluous for split-window to be a command.  Or am I
 > overlooking something?

Everything you say here is correct.  Can you please fix it?

Thanks, martin



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-12  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-12  7:58 split-window as a command Stephen Berman
2013-04-12  9:29 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2013-04-12 11:37   ` Stephen Berman
2013-04-12 14:13     ` martin rudalics
2013-04-12 19:44       ` Rand
2013-04-12 23:05         ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-12 23:31         ` Stephen Berman
2013-04-13  0:52           ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-13  1:54             ` Rand User
2013-04-13  2:46               ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-13  5:45                 ` Rand User
2013-04-13  6:29                   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-13  1:44           ` Rand User
2013-04-13  8:03             ` martin rudalics
2013-04-13  2:10         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-13 14:45           ` Stephen Berman

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