From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#58423: 29.0.50; Weird behavior of string-edit Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:40:16 +1300 Message-ID: <6a5ef382eb76edafb45c013a9613e830@webmail.orcon.net.nz> References: <86bkqje2c5.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com> <87v8orjix3.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11583"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Orcon Webmail Cc: Jean Louis , 58423@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 11 14:43:26 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1oiEbV-0002oa-LZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:43:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45026 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oiEbU-00038M-3S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 08:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oiChB-0003YY-73 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52031) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oiCh5-0007Zg-7C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oiCh4-0004b7-02 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:41:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Phil Sainty Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:41:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 58423 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 58423-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B58423.166548482517602 (code B ref 58423); Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 58423) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Oct 2022 10:40:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51107 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oiCgT-0004Zq-Bx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-2.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.43]:58621) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oiCgR-0004Zd-TJ for 58423@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.253.37.70] (port=47861 helo=webmail.orcon.net.nz) by smtp-2.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oiCgK-0001hr-Ct; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:40:16 +1300 Original-Received: from ip-116-251-140-135.kinect.net.nz ([116.251.140.135]) via [10.253.37.253] by webmail.orcon.net.nz with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:40:16 +1300 In-Reply-To: <87v8orjix3.fsf@gnus.org> X-Sender: psainty@orcon.net.nz X-GeoIP: -- X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:245102 Archived-At: 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).