From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 15422@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15422: 24.3.50; `read-string': different parameter name from `read-from-minibuffer'
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:45:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y47w7cl1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11d850fa-d73e-4699-a11c-50efa70d297c@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 20 Sep 2013 08:02:17 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> `read-string' calls its parameter INITIAL-INPUT.
> `read-from-minibuffer' calls its parameter INITIAL-CONTENTS.
>
> But the doc string of `read-string' says that parameter INITIAL-INPUT
> "behaves as in `read-from-minibuffer'", which clearly makes no sense
> since `r-f-m' has no such parameter.
>
> The two should have the same name if the doc for one refers to the
> other.
Somebody has sneakily changed the doc string:
If non-nil, second arg INITIAL-INPUT is a string to insert before reading.
This argument has been superseded by DEFAULT-VALUE and should normally be nil
in new code. It behaves as INITIAL-CONTENTS in ‘read-from-minibuffer’ (which
see).
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2013-09-20 15:02 bug#15422: 24.3.50; `read-string': different parameter name from `read-from-minibuffer' Drew Adams
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