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bug#11534: 24.0.97; `dired-get-marked-files' does not behave as document
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#11534: 24.0.97; `dired-get-marked-files' does not behave as documented |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:14:07 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> emacs -Q
>
> Put point on any file line.
>
> M-: (dired-get-marked-files)
>
> It returns the name of that line's file.
>
> But the doc string says this about argument ARG, which is nil in this
> case:
>
> Optional second argument ARG, if non-nil, specifies files near
> point instead of marked files. It usually comes from the prefix
> argument.
> If ARG is an integer, use the next ARG files.
> Any other non-nil value means to use the current file instead.
>
> It does not explicitly say anything about what happens when ARG is nil
> (and no files are marked). But a reader could reasonably assume that
> none of what happens when ARG is non-nil would happen.
I've removed " non-nil" so that the documentation says what it does.
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- bug#11534: 24.0.97; `dired-get-marked-files' does not behave as documented,
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