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bug#35222: 26.1; `read-command' documentation
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#35222: 26.1; `read-command' documentation |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:02:20 +0300 |
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:13:31 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> 1. The doc string does not say what happens if DEFAULT is not provided
> (so `nil') and the user enters empty input. And what happens is not
> obvious. Please add that information to the doc string.
Thanks, fixed.
> 2. What does happen? Well, it's documented in (elisp) `High-Level
> Completion'. But please add information to that Info node that helps
> users understand a return value that is an empty-named interned
> symbol, which has the print and read syntax `##'. It's pretty
> unusual for the default behavior of a read command to return such an
> odd beast. (The default behavior is the case when arg DEFAULT is
> absent, hence `nil'.) And please provide a cross-reference to node
> `Symbol Type', which explains this syntax.
Done.