Subject: bug#58423: 29.0.50; Weird behavior of string-edit

From: Phil Sainty <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:40:16 +1300

On 2022-10-11 13:36, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> That function isn't defined as having any particular return value,
> so that's as good a value as any.

Is it really, though?

How about returning the edited string (or nil if aborted)?  Then it
would be possible to use `string-edit' as a method of interactively
obtaining a string value.

Surely that's a useful-and-therefore-better return value (which
can then be documented).