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bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:40:30 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Okt 23 2019, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> in emacs -Q (with default-directory -> ~/)
>
> (read-file-name-default "File: " nil nil nil "~/.bash_history" nil)
>
> prompts with default minibuffer contents "/:~/~/.bash_history". No part
> of that is shadowed (to indicate which part is meaningful). Without
> fully understanding how the initial contents are calculated, it doesn't
> seem very useful with the doubled ~/. Why can't INITIAL be used
> literally?
I think INITIAL is supposed to be a file name component, not a full file
name. (The manual also discourages the use of INITIAL.)
Andreas.
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bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/10/23