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read-file-name unexpected behavior when MUSTMATCH is a function

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Message #50 received at 66187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, philipk <at> posteo.net, 66187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66187: read-file-name unexpected behavior when MUSTMATCH is a
 function
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 15:00:16 +0300

> Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, 66187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:55:37 -0700
> From:  Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > Finally, I think the docstring of `read-directory-name' needs to be
> > updated: it fails to mention that MUSTMATCH can be a function (the
> > argument is passed directly to `read-file-name').
> 
> How about the attached patch?

This is okay, except that we do document the other arguments.  So why
not just copy/paste the description of MUSTMATCH from read-file-name
to read-directory-name instead?

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