Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 23:44:00 -0800 >> From: Joseph Turner >> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> >First, this should have been sent to our issue tracker, via >> >report-emacs-bug or submit-emacs-patch. >> >> Got it. Shall I do this now? > > Too late. Please remember this for the future. > >> >More to the point: we cannot possibly change the behavior of >> >read-number in such a backward-incompatible way. Especially since >> >this behavior is old, and explicitly called out in the doc string. It >> >is perhaps unfortunate that read-number behaves differently in this >> >manner, but I'm afraid we will have to live with this. >> >> That makes sense. Can we apply the info manual change? > > I think this change should be in the doc string of read-number, not in > the manual. One reason is that read-number is not documented in the > manual, while the description of this nit logically belongs to it, not > to format-prompt. I agree. How about this?