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bug#9361: 24.0.50; default value of `dired-do-chmod'


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#9361: 24.0.50; default value of `dired-do-chmod'
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:54:20 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>>> STANDARD-VALUE, if non-nil, should be a \"standard\" value or
>>> list of such values, available via history commands.
>>
>> STANDARD-VALUE is non-standard terminology.  According to
>> `read-from-minibuffer' it's named DEFAULT-VALUE.
>
> I don't like DEFAULT-VALUE, because it's not the default returned by
> empty input.  But I guess we should be consistent with
> read-from-minibuffer, so I changed it.  We should revisit this issue at
> some point (in read-from-minibuffer too).

Yes, we should revisit this issue later.  Nowadays established
terminology for functionality of accessing additional values
(like in web browser's autocompletion) is SUGGESTIONS.





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