From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1 Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 17:56:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83bn02cs54.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y437c0qg.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000> <83oa43d9r8.fsf@gnu.org> <06d4a7f1-f116-fb5c-9bd2-c4d1f98934c9@easy-emacs.de> <83k2ercy5u.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473087421 32710 195.159.176.226 (5 Sep 2016 14:57:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 14:57:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 05 16:56:55 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bgvKG-0006VQ-JE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2016 16:56:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgvKE-0000VC-DO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2016 10:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44678) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgvJd-0000TK-Fn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2016 10:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgvJZ-00084Z-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2016 10:56:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgvJZ-00084E-7y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2016 10:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3135 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bgvJW-0006OJ-VM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2016 10:55:59 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Andreas =?windows-1252?Q?R=F6hler?= on Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:16:00 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111266 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Röhler > Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:16:00 +0200 > > The ideosyncrasy: it yields the same value for arg = 1 as if no arg were > given: Commands that need to distinguish between those should not use "p".