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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: "rpluim@gmail.com" <rpluim@gmail.com>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:29:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB548883232C29A5820062BCC5F3789@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h71ss4yx.fsf@gnu.org>

> If read-char-from-minibuffer is supposed to return a single character,
> it cannot return nil (or anything else that indicates empty input).
> If you make such a change, expect it to break many use cases
> elsewhere.
>
> To me, the above says that read-char-from-minibuffer is not the right
> tool for this job.

+1.

(IMO it's not the right tool for very many jobs, if any.)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-31 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <165875050243.3275.8867100069985547389@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220725120142.D1283C0F203@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-07-25 13:01   ` emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation Robert Pluim
2022-07-25 13:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-25 14:48       ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-25 16:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 12:52       ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-26 13:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 14:23           ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-26 16:06             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 16:54               ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-26 17:15                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-27  7:54                   ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-27 11:32                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-25 17:52     ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-25 18:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-25 18:42         ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-25 19:49           ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-26  7:59             ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-26 12:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-27  7:46                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-27  8:13                   ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-27 11:32                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-27 18:54                     ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-27 19:23                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-27 19:55                         ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-28  5:40                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-28  6:07                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-28  7:13                               ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-28  7:56                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-28  7:10                             ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-28  7:55                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-28 19:40                                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-30  7:29               ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31  8:49                 ` Robert Pluim
2022-08-31 16:09                   ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31 16:36                     ` Robert Pluim
2022-08-31 16:40                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 16:56                         ` Robert Pluim
2022-08-31 17:13                           ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31 17:22                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 17:26                               ` Robert Pluim
2022-08-31 17:29                               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-08-31 18:04                               ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31 20:14                     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-01  7:22                       ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-01  8:14                         ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-01 11:34                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01 12:23                             ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-01 13:00                               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-01 13:07                                 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-01 15:28                                   ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-01 15:30                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01 15:58                                       ` Robert Pluim

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