From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heime Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Defaulting optional numeric and string arguments Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:29:35 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9562"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 12 22:30:13 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1soqSC-0002HD-JT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:30:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1soqRk-000467-Le; Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1soqRi-0003xb-5Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-4319.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.19]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1soqRg-0004uq-La for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:29:41 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1726172978; x=1726432178; bh=cfmdENALg4dFNOY2/sNjp9Yu5IcKcFqUJZixMIB/j24=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=EOFShkNTaF4GK4+39PYCNM2I02Ts6OroC4ET0jaL3YWhd1THxGKzWYHhKace2MsNQ ukl1he3Hey3WLHw6LpvKkzTzfv1BQaiyMpE+O1ob9E7uMzmW4wAGd/dKUlrimu1Yhj TLGtxd8W9yiihqkjaNrl3YeZhCeCjh3PjqNWBlPauRP5LaekaHw7PIOkw5Wr1PAYtD EUmg/z36rwi99FRGotXT8kAdxuif4lWpKL2snWbs3yuoP9bGCtg9gVLzwPCieM12pj zcFDk4+X//RN+wv8LR82b2lvK2abQjjg/d7CKoapTYoGlkKb3aJBAebiId2TSAyndj 7MTJX6007u9+Q== In-Reply-To: Feedback-ID: 57735886:user:proton X-Pm-Message-ID: 90f19d4dc2d4fbc82e3c269aaf86f6fa8bdfcdc0 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.43.19; envelope-from=heimeborgia@protonmail.com; helo=mail-4319.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147977 Archived-At: On Friday, September 13th, 2024 at 8:18 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > If user does not pass anything to `read-string`, would the value not be= nothing. >=20 > Not if you provide a sane `default-value` argument. >=20 > Stefan There is the additional problem when using=20 (interactive "nNumber of Context Lines: \ns Buffer Name: " ) Which does not apply any defaults