GNU bug report logs - #49316
Add apply-partially's right version

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: daanturo <daanturo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 12:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch, wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #55 received at 49316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: daanturo <daanturo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 49316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49316: Add apply-partially's right version
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:02:31 +1200

On 2021-07-05 16:29, daanturo wrote:
> The author has mentioned that the reason for being a macro with extra
> parentheses was the ability to work with `eldoc`: inside the inner pair
> of parentheses, we can look at parameters suggestion which is normally
> not possible with `apply-partially`.

Thanks, I missed that.  That makes sense.


> `applying-partially` is bit confusing given the name of the existing
> function.

I agree, although I've failed to think of any alternative names that I
think are good.


-Phil
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