Re: question about optional arguments

[leo]

"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message
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> "leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com> writes:
>
> > i want to call dired-get-marked-files with the specific value 1 for
> > secend argument arg but without a value for the first argument localp,
>
> Is that a trick question?

no, probably just a stupid question, sorry.

> (dired-get-marked-files nil 1)

thanks david, i didn't know that nil is as good as no argument.

cheers, leo