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Re: Read-string with pointer at start of initial value
From: |
Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: Read-string with pointer at start of initial value |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Jan 2018 01:20:11 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> (read-from-minibuffer "String: " (cons "Test"
> 1))
>
> `read-string' does also accept a cons as
> INITIAL-INPUT to specify the cursor position,
> so the following also works:
>
> (read-string "String: " (cons "Test" 1))
>
> but the docstring discourages its use.
In this case, I don't think there is any need
for it because finger-habits, especially
generic commands to move point etc., are
ultimately very fast.
But is this the reason why it is disencouraged
or is there another/other reasons?
As for the docstring, it says
This argument has been superseded by
DEFAULT-VALUE and should normally be nil in
new code. It behaves as INITIAL-CONTENTS in
`read-from-minibuffer' (which see).
What does "which see" mean?
GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf,
GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2015-03-10 on bm-wb-01,
modified by Debian
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