GNU bug report logs - #30938
27.0; `dired-do-create-files' etc.: do NOT always raise error if no files

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:37:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 27.0

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 30938 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#30938: 27.0; `dired-do-create-files' etc.: do NOT always raise error if no files
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:25:52 -0400

On 29 March 2018 at 16:04, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> wrote:

> Don't you see there is something wrong in adding the same INTERACTIVEP
> arg to all these 13 commands and possibly to more 15 other commands?

The parameter should be named THROW-ERROR-P, then it's clear that
there is nothing wrong with it, all commands just happen to share this
interface feature: they may throw error, or not.
(and they can still work correctly if called non-interactively from
some other interactive command)
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