From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35222: 26.1; `read-command' documentation Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:24:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <54098355-6406-459c-9a3a-b7c5b4fe286b@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="13903"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 35222@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 11 00:32:31 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hELlf-0003VN-M3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:32:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38628 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hELle-0008VA-95 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=y6prHShPe5lABs+eXp1EZGUHXOoJBv8a++Pnf7/a8f4=; b=HBCcU4tozsTjENZZuQGS5IelqIg2iFXLuDzuanRx/qZbClx8o7JG6DLlppwf7XNilg xbwkCM0hoeSJgnpxfY+3kja3Sygp6oMMc0b6X9V8dd9T1+j/Ct/SJIAtuATkQi6adE0i m+ojXptoav+mXKG6pcQ+SmuHmEgzQbVSZIQJ0uPftVWW8kc15BKF0RPn3fCrzyqu2S32 kMwB4sTcl9TEgHtcMipNJ7E4Em6qBzaqPIZd7Z4xCJXS037ZRgLZHN+r3FbFUm+ekDL+ sKLKacQe5RYjHuEkp19Pbxe4+PikeJvdO/vwNG5K79QtthFWwvRz66rlafsp2CWLkKvt gLmw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVycfzu2NoMqxJov8gYeBPXYrfTJ59il95B23obDkf8Bqm9qXP8 6OtZqxQUL8NV0nXQrRo8FBnxLzxQEbReHDsVk1A= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxIXWX9mycKY+8qiIYS0vZDuhPXuNUnd6YbwDwOEsv2xzEogNFIgfHemsmBYvJ6ySprL/EFUVnARimt3iszRyU= X-Received: by 2002:aca:ac84:: with SMTP id v126mr3993852oie.87.1554935064945; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:24:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <54098355-6406-459c-9a3a-b7c5b4fe286b@default> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:157471 Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 18:14, Drew Adams wrote: > > 1. The doc string does not say what happens if DEFAULT is not provided > (so `nil') and the user enters empty input. And what happens is not > obvious. Please add that information to the doc string. Um, can we declare the current behaviour a bug, and instead return nil in this case? That matches the current doc string (i.e., return DEFAULT-VALUE), and avoids the whole mess with the empty string symbol which is weird and pretty useless as far as I can tell.