From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10476: unneeded functions invocation-name and invocation-directory? Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:33 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326244190 2275 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2012 01:09:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:09:50 +0000 (UTC) To: 10476@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 11 02:09:45 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkmhF-0006qW-AX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:09:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56105 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkmhE-0005oT-Pk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:32922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkmhC-0005oJ-9w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkmhA-0008F8-FY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:58359) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkmhA-0008F2-Ae for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RkmhW-0003iD-Lg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:10:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:10:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 10476 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug pending X-Debbugs-Original-To: submit@debbugs.gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.132624419814253 (code B ref -1); Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Jan 2012 01:09:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53032 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RkmhS-0003hp-Lb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54767) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RkmhR-0003hj-4A for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rkmh4-0005UN-3K; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:34 -0500 X-Spook: wire transfer Medco Leuken-Baden Saddam Hussein ANDVT X-Ran: 3ODw1E@w"+/P2rNf#oj_5g\RvwO{*>$9;Lo"2ZILjGm{4N?=n`vdLvM7hS#NjMcdU3(U7J X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:55625 Archived-At: Package: emacs Severity: minor Tags: notabug pending I can't see why invocation-name and invocation-directory exist as functions. They just return copies of the associated variables. The function invocation-directory is never used anywhere in Emacs. For some reason, invocation-name the function is used more than the variable, but I don't see why the variable cannot be used (with an explicit copy-sequence where needed, eg x-initialize-window-system).