From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.60; doc string of minibuffer-completing-file-name Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:00:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <000a01c8a22b$5bdaf9b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208718080 29260 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2008 19:01:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 20 21:01:54 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JnenR-00019g-UF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:01:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnemm-0000h4-Or for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jnemg-0000cd-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jneme-0000c1-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jneme-0000by-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:01:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnemd-0000Ji-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:01:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnemd-0000u9-Cr for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:01:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JnemZ-0000Ig-Tv for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:01:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182] helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JnemV-0000Hj-WF; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:00:56 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AswEAAYwC0hMCqsI/2dsb2JhbACBUKc7 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,686,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="18795146" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 20 Apr 2008 15:00:54 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.171.8]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id AXU15154; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:00:54 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C680F895A; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:00:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:32:32 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95528 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22083 Archived-At: > Are you sure? I see this fragment in minibuf.c: > /* If this minibuffer is reading a file name, that doesn't mean > recursive ones are. But we cannot set it to nil, because > completion code still need to know the minibuffer is completing a > file name. So use `lambda' as intermediate value meaning > "t" in this minibuffer, but "nil" in next minibuffer. */ > if (!NILP (Vminibuffer_completing_file_name)) > Vminibuffer_completing_file_name = Qlambda; > So it sounds like `lambda' is used in recursive minibuffers. Am I > missing something? Yes, the value `lambda' is used, and quite visibly. But "external code" only need to know that it's non-nil. Stefan