GNU bug report logs - #5416
ARG of dired-hide-all is unused (and is the raw prefix arg)

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Package: emacs;

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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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)'
This bug report was last modified 15 years and 131 days ago.

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