[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5672: marked as done (23.1; (intern-soft "") returns non-nil)

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regarding 23.1; (intern-soft "") returns non-nil
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> 23.1; (intern-soft "") returns non-nil
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> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:28:35 +0900
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> Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> There's a program assuming (intern-soft STR) always return nil
> if STR is the null string.  It works in Emacs 22, but doesn't in
> Emacs 23.  That problem is easily solved by modifying the code
> into: (unless (equal STR "") (intern-soft STR))
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> However, isn't it an Emacs 23 bug?  It's not so serious though.
> It does not happen in Emacs that is launched using the arg -Q
> but happens after loading the ~/.emacs file.  I found at least
> `internal-set-lisp-face-attribute' that `set-face-attribute'
> uses does intern "".  For instance:
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> $ emacs -Q
> (intern-soft "")
>  => nil
> (internal-set-lisp-face-attribute
>  'bold :font
>  "-*-gothic-bold-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
>  0)
>  => bold
> (intern-soft "")
>  =>
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> I don't know what in `internal-set-lisp-face-attribute' does it.
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> Regards,
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> Re: bug#5672: 23.1; (intern-soft "") returns non-nil
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> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:15:31 -0500
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux)
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> > There's a program assuming (intern-soft STR) always return nil
> > if STR is the null string.
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> That is an invalid assumption.
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> > It works in Emacs 22, but doesn't in Emacs 23.
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> Try it with Emacs-22 after doing (intern ""), you'll get the same result
> as in Emacs-23.
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> > However, isn't it an Emacs 23 bug?
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> No.
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>         Stefan
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