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ARG of dired-hide-all is unused (and is the raw prefix arg)

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

Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: ARG of dired-hide-all is unused (and is the raw prefix arg)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:19:42 -0800

emacs -Q

The argument of dired-hide-all, ARG, which is totally unused.

Worse, ARG is given its value by the prefix arg:
(interactive "P")

So something must have been foreseen for users in terms of a prefix arg, but it
was apparently not implemented.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-01-02 on PRETEST
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 5416 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: ARG of dired-hide-all is unused (and is the raw prefix arg)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:44:02 -0500

> The argument of dired-hide-all, ARG, which is totally unused.

I've marked this argument as ignored.  Thanks.
bug closed, send any further explanations to "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> Request was from Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:45:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:24:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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