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Re: Patch: Follow convention for reading with the minibuffer.


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Patch: Follow convention for reading with the minibuffer.
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:01:05 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>    * When you mention a default value in a minibuffer prompt, put it
>      and the word `default' inside parentheses.  It should look like
>      this:

>           Enter the answer: (default 42)

Yuck!
I *much* prefer

    Enter the answer (default 42):

which is what is used by pretty much everything except for C-x b (where the
default is after the colon by "accident" AFAICT).


        Stefan


PS: Actually I even prefer

    Enter the answer [42]:

  because minibuffer width is limited.  I guess I should write a variant of
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode which rewrites the (default foo) into
  [foo].




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