From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Olum <kdo@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>
Cc: 17560@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17560: 24.4.50; wrong type argument if rmail-delete-after-output set
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 20:37:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k39cl7kj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <q5261kwlcik.fsf@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>
> From: Ken Olum <kdo@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>
> Cc: 17560@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 11:50:59 -0400
>
> I'd put
>
> (if (not count) (setq count 1))
>
> in rmail-delete-forward and for consistency make the argument of
> rmail-delete-backward optional and add the same code there.
>
> Unfortunately, that is not consistent with rmail-next-message, for
> example. The alternative would be to make the argument not optional and
> change all callers to say (rmail-delete-forward 1).
The alternative is what I had in mind, yes.
> Unfortunately, in previous versions of emacs this would mean to move
> backward, so new calls would be incompatible with the old
> definition, which I think argues against this plan.
I don't think this problem should bother us, as the change in
rmail-delete-forward is backward-incompatible anyway. Which reminds
me: could you also make a suitable entry in NEWS?
TIA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-23 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-23 15:02 bug#17560: 24.4.50; wrong type argument if rmail-delete-after-output set Ken Olum
2014-05-23 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-23 15:50 ` Ken Olum
2014-05-23 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-05-23 18:48 ` Ken Olum
2014-05-23 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-23 20:04 ` Ken Olum
2014-05-24 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-27 15:08 ` Ken Olum
2014-05-30 9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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