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From: |
Luc Teirlinck |
Subject: |
read-directory-name |
Date: |
Fri, 6 May 2005 20:20:45 -0500 (CDT) |
The docstring and Elisp documentation of `read-directory-name' conflict.
Docstring:
Default name to default-dirname if user exits with the same
non-empty string that was inserted by this function.
(If default-dirname is omitted, dir combined with initial is used,
or just dir if initial is nil.)
Elisp manual:
If both DEFAULT and INITIAL are `nil',
this function uses the current buffer's default directory as
substitute default, ignoring DIRECTORY.
>From the following ielm run it appears that the Elisp documentation is
still correct, even though the code and docstring have changed (on
April 23) since I checked all of this quite a while ago:
ELISP> default-directory
"~/"
ELISP> (read-directory-name "Directory: " "/etc/")
"~/"
ELISP>
To get the second line, I just presses RET with /etc/ in the
minibuffer.
Sincerely,
Luc.
- read-directory-name,
Luc Teirlinck <=
Re: read-directory-name, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/08