From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13177: 24.3.50; doc of `read-char-by-name' Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:53:50 +0800 Message-ID: <87d2y32641.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4AF22BD1F38E4AF2A650D1F537B47069@us.oracle.com> <8762431shy.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <9D74DAC118B44C3DAF75A8CFC6AE7FB3@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356076500 16478 80.91.229.3 (21 Dec 2012 07:55:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:55:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13177@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 21 08:55:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TlxRn-0005B1-Hq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:55:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45100 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlxRZ-0000Yf-US for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:54:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59519) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlxRV-0000YM-7X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlxRS-0003Jk-Cd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:54:53 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43148) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlxRS-0003Jg-A7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:54:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TlxRe-0002Vn-3E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:55:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13177 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13177-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13177.13560764569583 (code B ref 13177); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13177) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Dec 2012 07:54:16 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53396 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TlxQt-0002UV-Ut for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:54:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com ([209.85.160.43]:57792) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TlxQo-0002UL-UW for 13177@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f43.google.com with SMTP id um15so2558602pbc.30 for <13177@debbugs.gnu.org>; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:53:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=YlATqVYORUYStI43NcMJd3Bws9RM+IacuDukX3tHlTs=; b=GWX3w7Ltj7TetP6wz5LcVIyJM0HoC4v6jeXFwYCp7MeMt7e9PoX28lpWriwJtH+kxP QruTgQLOOI+82ffY5mm3Z5KUZbxfLlZmzYcyebv596wyIWhsse/I9suUWyyR5EgYZske 9wlvsksCxm+OqzhmlhOAy0h0RxOa49CDgEjdVDz8l1adqDPYkKCxgt6t5/yTbgTu0l6c tOf3Fu3qsLbDS+PmY5iDKgfeMawthJWbJGiFcp2dRHIVv08mMDYsIiF1roiNto2QvVXB t7zjTCGgTzS/7rOcasCiQ7XjlMQLqbtxVgcR9tNP45r++ujehjFNvwagqJuW6eWtP3Gy mxxA== X-Received: by 10.68.143.41 with SMTP id sb9mr37655786pbb.50.1356076436930; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:53:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ulysses ([155.69.18.203]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d8sm6938021pax.23.2012.12.20.23.53.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:53:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:20:13 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.91 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:68828 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> The problem for me is that I don't know what the intention (design) >> was or why. Maybe someone has a good reason to return nil or to >> return a number that does not correspond to a recognized code point? > > It's called "read-char-by-name", so the intention is pretty clear: it > should return a char. Agreed. I changed read-char-by-name on the trunk to signal an error for invalid input. (This also avoids other wonky cases, e.g. entering ## giving the empty symbol because `read-char-by-name' uses `read'...)