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28.0.50; Function with more than one key gives "wrong number of arguments" error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 12:21:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 40596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40596: 28.0.50; Function with more than one key gives "wrong number of arguments" error
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:30:21 +0300

> From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:19:10 +0300
> 
> Here is something that could be a bug, I cannot know at this moment, as
> I am researching yet if I can use &key with Emacs's `defun':
> 
> (defun tmp-function-1 (text html &key one)
>   "This one works fine"
>   (message one))
> 
> (tmp-function-1 "text" "<html>" :one "Hello")
> 
> (defun tmp-function-2 (text html &key one two)
>   "This one does not work, wrong number of arguments"
>   (message one))
> 
> (tmp-function-1 "text" "<html>" :one "Hello" :two "But not alright")
> 
> Evaluating the last function does not work, it gives the error:

You need to use cl-defun, not defun.  The latter doesn't support &key.
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