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bug#38886: (read-variable) documentation doesn't match behavior
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#38886: (read-variable) documentation doesn't match behavior |
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Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:56:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com> writes:
> According to the documentation for (read-variable), this sexp
> (read-variable "?" '(all one top)) should return all if there's no
> input. It, however, signals an error instead: Wrong type argument:
> stringp, all. Indeed, this sexp (read-variable "?" '("all" "one"
> "top")) does return the symbol all
>
> I'm guessing that that is in fact the intended behavior. (In the C
> code that seems to be the case.) However, the documentation is
> ambiguous. The first paragraph of the documentation would better end
> "... if it is a list of strings."
Yup. I've now fixed the doc string in the way you suggest in Emacs 28.
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