* bug#60103: 28.2; Doc string of `previous-history-element'
@ 2022-12-15 21:05 Drew Adams
2022-12-16 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2022-12-15 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 60103
The doc string says this:
Puts previous element of the minibuffer history in the minibuffer.
With argument N, it uses the Nth previous element.
That second line makes it sound like arg N is optional. It's not -
there is no _without_ argument N.
In GNU Emacs 28.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
of 2022-09-13 built on AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19044
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19044.2251)
Configured using:
'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation
--without-compress-install CFLAGS=-O2'
Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
XPM ZLIB
(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)
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* bug#60103: 28.2; Doc string of `previous-history-element'
2022-12-15 21:05 bug#60103: 28.2; Doc string of `previous-history-element' Drew Adams
@ 2022-12-16 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-16 17:53 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-12-16 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 60103
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:05:31 +0000
>
> The doc string says this:
>
> Puts previous element of the minibuffer history in the minibuffer.
> With argument N, it uses the Nth previous element.
>
> That second line makes it sound like arg N is optional. It's not -
> there is no _without_ argument N.
What do you mean by "no _without_"? This command is bound to M-p in
the minibuffer, and I can definitely invoke it as "just" M-n,
_without_ any prefix argument.
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* bug#60103: 28.2; Doc string of `previous-history-element'
2022-12-16 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2022-12-16 17:53 ` Drew Adams
2022-12-16 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2022-12-16 17:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 60103@debbugs.gnu.org
> > The doc string says this:
> >
> > Puts previous element of the minibuffer history in the minibuffer.
> > With argument N, it uses the Nth previous element.
> >
> > That second line makes it sound like arg N is optional. It's not -
> > there is no _without_ argument N.
>
> What do you mean by "no _without_"? This command is bound to M-p in
> the minibuffer, and I can definitely invoke it as "just" M-n,
> _without_ any prefix argument.
I mean "without argument N", not "without a prefix
arg".
It's not possible to invoke the function without
providing argument N - it's not optional.
If you want to say something like "With numeric
prefix argument N..." then that would be fine.
Thx.
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* bug#60103: 28.2; Doc string of `previous-history-element'
2022-12-16 17:53 ` Drew Adams
@ 2022-12-16 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-12-16 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 60103-done
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "60103@debbugs.gnu.org" <60103@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:53:34 +0000
>
> > > The doc string says this:
> > >
> > > Puts previous element of the minibuffer history in the minibuffer.
> > > With argument N, it uses the Nth previous element.
> > >
> > > That second line makes it sound like arg N is optional. It's not -
> > > there is no _without_ argument N.
> >
> > What do you mean by "no _without_"? This command is bound to M-p in
> > the minibuffer, and I can definitely invoke it as "just" M-n,
> > _without_ any prefix argument.
>
> I mean "without argument N", not "without a prefix
> arg".
>
> It's not possible to invoke the function without
> providing argument N - it's not optional.
>
> If you want to say something like "With numeric
> prefix argument N..." then that would be fine.
That's what I did (the original doc string didn't mention the prefix
argument explicitly, but clearly alluded to that when it said
"argument").
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