GNU bug report logs - #43374
26.1: read-directory-name not respecting MUST-MATCH arg

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>

Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 26.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
To: Emacs Bug Reporting <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 26.1: read-directory-name not respecting MUST-MATCH arg
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 08:42:18 -0400

based upon the function's docstring, I was expecting the following to
return nil for a non-existing directory. Instead, it returns a string of
the non-existing directory.

   (read-directory-name "Directory: " nil nil t nil)



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