GNU bug report logs - #6679
locate-library does not provide a default when called interactively

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Reported by: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:54:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 6679-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6679-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com,
 6652-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6679: locate-library does not provide a default when called
 interactively
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:01:08 +0300
> From: Štěpán Němec
>  <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:59:44 +0100
> Cc: 6679 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:14:09 -0600
> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> 
> > Assuming that complexity is justified, it ought to be factored into a
> > read-library-name utility that both find-library and locate-library use.
> 
> The first part has since happened (`read-library-name'), all that is
> needed is the latter. Patch attached.
> 
> > `C-h a -library\'' returns apropos-library and load-library in addition to
> > find-library and locate-library, but it's not clear to me that they would
> > benefit from a default.
> 
> The patch also handles `load-library'. The set of arguments/completions
> expected/provided by `apropos-library' is slightly different and
> requires other validation, so `read-library-name' wouldn't really help
> there.

Thanks, pushed to the master branch.




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