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Re: 23.0.60; doc for read-from-minibuffer


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; doc for read-from-minibuffer
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 04:05:45 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> Arg DEFAULT can now be a list. This is not reflected in the doc string.

Thanks, I updated the doc strings.

> And the Elisp manual doc is not clear about what happens with non-nil
> READ and list-valued DEFAULT:
>
>  If READ is non-`nil', then DEFAULT is also used as the input to
>      `read', if the user enters empty input.
>
> Does this mean the whole list DEFAULT is passed to `read'.

This is now documented in the Elisp manual.

> Allow me to mention also that letting DEFAULT be a list also breaks
> code that I have, FWIW...

This is now mentioned in the Incompatible Lisp Changes section of NEWS.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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