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
next prev parent 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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