From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: lisp/lisp-mnt.el: lm-verify Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:44:15 +0100 Message-ID: <85k5nqjkv4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197060261 19345 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2007 20:44:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:44:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 07 21:44:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0k3f-0007V7-9l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:44:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0k3O-0001Jv-BL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:44:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0k3J-0001G5-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:44:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0k3H-0001Cx-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0k3H-0001Cn-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0k3G-0002FB-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0k3F-0003Fc-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:44:01 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id D44581C46130; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 21:44:15 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:84848 Archived-At: After wracking my brain over the lm-verify code, I have come to the conclusion that the code is utter garbage when a directory is passed in: ret is set to a list (typically (nil nil nil nil)) rather than a string, a temporary buffer gets filled with output but never gets displayed and so on. It does not appear like any code in Emacs uses lm-verify, and there is no autoload for it either. Anybody mind if I delete it rather than trying to figure out what might have been intended? Since there are no apparent callers... -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum