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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: load-file's default argument is not explicit
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 20:10:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834k1tmk8s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h75tpfri.fsf@autistici.org> (message from Andrea Monaco on Fri, 13 May 2022 18:18:57 +0200)

> From: Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 18:18:57 +0200
> 
> 
> When I invoke load-file interactively and just press RET at the prompt,
> it attempts to load the currently visited file.
> 
> The load-file manual page doesn't document that.  Perhaps more
> importantly, the prompt doesn't state the default value inside square
> brackets, unlike other commands.
> 
> Is this behavior intended?

It's just the usual behavior of any command that asks for a file name.



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2022-05-13 16:18 load-file's default argument is not explicit Andrea Monaco
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2022-05-14  8:33 Andrea Monaco

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