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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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