From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14743: 24.3.50; doc string of `read-regexp' Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372460712 23718 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2013 23:05:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:05:12 +0000 (UTC) To: 14743@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 29 01:05:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ushj4-00074Z-N1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 01:05:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ushj4-00067X-5d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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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:75696 Archived-At: The name DEFAULT is used with two different meanings in the doc string (wholePARAMETER or first element of cons-valued arg). It seems, from looking at the code, that that is OK, in the sense that the same behavior applies to both meanings. However, the doc should say what happens wrt the return value if DEFAULT is nil and the user enters empty input. The answer, it seems, is that the empty string is returned. In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2013-06-27 on ODIEONE Bzr revision: 113205 dgutov@yandex.ru-20130627095155-f1lv1c7xf99g1sss Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --prefix=3D/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=3Dyes,glyphs CFLAGS=3D-O0 -g3 LDFLAGS=3D-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib CPPFLAGS=3D-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'