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

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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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Message #41 received at 30938 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30938 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: RE: bug#30938: 27.0;	`dired-do-create-files' etc.: do NOT always
 raise error if no files
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 08:43:29 -0700 (PDT)

> > If you don't believe that a user or another library could
> > or would define such a command (or in any other way would
> > call an existing function that calls the workhorse function
> > `dired-get-marked-files', then too bad.
> 
> Such uses can always call dired-get-marked-files with the last
> argument nil or omitted.  Where's the problem?

I won't repeat myself this time.  If you don't want to see or
fix the problem, so be it.
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