From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: need obsolete arg in (read-from-minibuffer ...) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:34:31 -0700 Message-ID: <2AFA95E5FB96474DB80F687EFB447F96@us.oracle.com> References: <4D83BF4A.1030707@mousecar.com> <57C62106C2FC4A8DABE33A73A9A35201@us.oracle.com> <4D83D8B9.7070608@mousecar.com> <4D84134C.9010402@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300502108 7250 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2011 02:35:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:35:08 +0000 (UTC) To: , "'GNU Emacs List'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 03:35:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0m0M-000869-Tz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:35:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47732 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0m0M-0004JU-9H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50467 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0lzt-0004DL-Sq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0lzs-0000AX-MH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:34:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:41421) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0lzs-00009p-HR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p2J2YT6j018830 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:34:30 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p2J2YS69022307 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:34:28 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt006.oracle.com (abhmt006.oracle.com [141.146.116.15]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p2J2YSMg016671; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.38.38) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:34:27 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4D84134C.9010402@mousecar.com> Thread-Index: Acvl3HR7qR3rdDUUTQqYPDfqFeVOAQAAXetg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-Source-IP: acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4D841635.0047,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.121 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80261 Archived-At: > Really? This is why that 2nd arg was declared obsolete!? > That's rather goofy. I thought there was some technical > reason for it--something to do with code. Oh well.... > Thanks for the answer. I gave you what I think the rationale was for declaring it obsolete, based on what is written in the doc. But I don't speak for those who decided this, and your interpretation of the doc might be different from mine.