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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defaulting optional numeric and string arguments
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:29:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mYMQ9GQL8et_dCJ1W9P1agjT7qTib2QP9Ie22ey_aWU0QmwWO6a3tTihcgZ2YJyQKhdQ_VjVh7pAuOK7Q8aULg0cluYrvn-3_baC43qYmfA=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvttekfwyv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>


On Friday, September 13th, 2024 at 8:18 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > If user does not pass anything to `read-string`, would the value not be nothing.
> 
> Not if you provide a sane `default-value` argument.
> 
> Stefan

There is the additional problem when using 

(interactive "nNumber of Context Lines: \ns Buffer Name: " )

Which does not apply any defaults



      reply	other threads:[~2024-09-12 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-12 17:39 Defaulting optional numeric and string arguments Heime
2024-09-12 19:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-09-12 20:00   ` Heime
2024-09-12 20:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2024-09-12 20:29       ` Heime [this message]

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