GNU bug report logs - #29842
27.0; `dired-change-marks': args should not be optional

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 17:59:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 27.0

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: 29842 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29842: 27.0; `dired-change-marks': args should not be optional
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 09:58:02 -0800 (PST)

1. There is no use of this function in the Emacs Lisp sources that needs
   to have the args be optional.

2. If (dired-change-marks) is evaluated then you get an error:

   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Format specifier doesn't match
                                         argument type") 
    format("\n%c" "nil")
    dired-change-marks()
    eval((dired-change-marks))

This bug is apparently quite old - it is present in Emacs 20, for
example.

In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 4, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2017-12-21
Repository revision: b1cf262a79463f28164ea1c2ffee3c657ce02ea4
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install -C 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3'
 host_alias=x86_64-w64-mingw32 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig'
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 128 days ago.

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