Re: completing-read depricated initial-input

[Michael Heerdegen]

carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> I differ with the plan to depricate `INITIAL-INPUT`.

I often miss it, too.  I don't recall why it had been deprecated.  But
you still can get the same thing using `minibuffer-setup-hook', e.g.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(minibuffer-with-setup-hook (lambda () (insert "b"))
  (completing-read "Input: " (list "a" "b")))
#+end_src

Michael.