From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 13177@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13177: 24.3.50; doc of `read-char-by-name'
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:20:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmwxe9a46.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9D74DAC118B44C3DAF75A8CFC6AE7FB3@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:08:08 -0800")
> The problem for me is that I don't know what the intention (design)
> was or why. Maybe someone has a good reason to return nil or to
> return a number that does not correspond to a recognized code point?
It's called "read-char-by-name", so the intention is pretty clear: it
should return a char.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-15 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-14 4:01 bug#13177: 24.3.50; doc of `read-char-by-name' Drew Adams
2012-12-15 11:09 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-15 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-15 15:18 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-15 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-15 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-15 23:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-15 23:39 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-16 9:12 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-16 10:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-16 10:49 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-16 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-16 16:31 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21 7:53 ` Chong Yidong
2012-12-21 8:04 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-15 15:52 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-15 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-15 16:23 ` Drew Adams
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