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From: | Arash Esbati |
Subject: | Re: completing-read depricated initial-input |
Date: | Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:58:21 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 |
Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes: > Tassilo Horn wrote: > >> You have to delete the initial input if it's not what you >> want or if you want to see the other possibilities. >> So basically all occurrences where INITIAL-INPUT is used as >> a kind of default value are better handled with the >> DEF argument. > > I know but ... why are you telling me this? Because you asked? I parsed your question exactly the same way Tassilo did. > IMO this is the best way of doing it: > > (let ((name "Danger")) > (read-string (format "name: [%s] " name) nil nil name) ) I think the current standard in Emacs is like this: (let ((name "Danger")) (read-string (format "Name (default %s): " name) nil nil name)) Best, Arash
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