From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>, 58423@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58423: 29.0.50; Weird behavior of string-edit
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:40:16 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a5ef382eb76edafb45c013a9613e830@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8orjix3.fsf@gnus.org>
On 2022-10-11 13:36, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> That function isn't defined as having any particular return value,
> so that's as good a value as any.
Is it really, though?
How about returning the edited string (or nil if aborted)? Then it
would be possible to use `string-edit' as a method of interactively
obtaining a string value.
Surely that's a useful-and-therefore-better return value (which
can then be documented).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-11 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-10 22:33 bug#58423: 29.0.50; Weird behavior of string-edit Jean Louis
2022-10-11 0:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-11 14:10 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-11 0:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-11 10:40 ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2022-10-11 11:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-11 12:11 ` Phil Sainty
2022-10-11 14:17 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-11 19:34 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-11 19:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-11 14:12 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-11 14:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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