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X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.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:77145 Archived-At: I've noticed that nth returns the first item in a list, when it's given a negative index. (nth -1 '(5 6 7)) ;; 5 (nth -2 '(5 6 7)) ;; 5 Judging by my reading of the docstring, I was expecting nil (though raising an error might be a sensible behaviour instead). In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2) of 2013-07-30 on -var-lib-archbuild-staging-x86_64-jgc Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11402000 Configured using: `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-xft' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_GB.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t