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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <2398@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>, <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#2398: 23.0.90; MUSTMATCH read-file-name arg, confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:32:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0A3A229201594E8CA5750900B280FB8B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <012c01c992ee$8ec310b0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com>

> 2. Similarly, the Elisp manual seems incorrect. You are not 
> REQUIRED to enter the name of an existing file, if MUSTMATCH is, say,
> `confirm-after-completion'.  Completion is still lax in this case;
> it's just that you must confirm that you want a non-existing file
> name.

Not fixed. The manual still says that read-file-name argument REQUIRE-MATCH has
the same meaning as for `completing-read'. And it says nothing about the special
values for this argument and the new behavior they effect.

> 3. Beyond the fact that the doc is inaccurate (and confusing) on this
> matter, the new behavior also breaks existing code. Any code that
> passed a non-nil non-t value in order to guarantee that the value
> returned by the function names an existing file is now broken.

Not fixed.

> 4. The user option `confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer' is not even
> documented in this regard in the Elisp manual.

Not fixed.







  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-24 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87mybii1an.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
2009-02-20  0:02 ` bug#2398: 23.0.90; MUSTMATCH read-file-name arg, confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer Drew Adams
2009-03-19  4:35   ` bug#2398: marked as done (23.0.90; MUSTMATCH read-file-name arg, confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-05-24 23:32   ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found]   ` <handler.2398.C.125035979416492.notifdonectrl.0@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
2009-08-15 19:32     ` bug#2398: NOT FIXED - MUSTMATCH read-file-name arg, confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer Drew Adams
2009-08-15 19:49       ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-15 20:34         ` Drew Adams
2009-08-15 21:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-15 21:15             ` Drew Adams
2009-08-15 21:23               ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-15 21:53                 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-15 20:50   ` bug#2398: marked as done (23.0.90; MUSTMATCH read-file-name arg, confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer) Emacs bug Tracking System
     [not found] <87tz09vtg4.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
2009-08-15 18:15 ` Processed: close 2398 Emacs bug Tracking System

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