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bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL
From: |
Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:40:38 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> > 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.)
I have no clue. The manual describes INITIAL as "initial file name".
I think the INITIAL arg can be casually useful. In my case I'm setting
the value of a (file name valued) widget with the current value as
INITIAL value which feels quite natural (or, would feel, if it worked as
I expect).
Regards,
Michael.
bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/10/23