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Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:08:17 -0400

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  > Because there's a lot of past experience where people want to have the
  > Windows-style behavior where prompts get prefilled with the (selected)
  > default, and they don't understand that in order to get that they need
  > to change `completing-read`.  So instead they abuse `initial-content` in
  > their code (even though it doesn't give quite the same behavior either
  > but gets the closer).

Would it be possible to tell users the rest of that?
That is, to tell them what to do instead of using INITIAL-CONTENT?
Ideally it should tell them what mode to enable to get that behavior
for Emacs completion generally.

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