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Re: announcing defaults when reading from minibuffer
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Bill Wohler |
Subject: |
Re: announcing defaults when reading from minibuffer |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:47:25 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Emilio Lopes <address@hidden> writes:
> I've just asked myself if there's any convention for announcing
> defaults when reading from minibuffer. Skimming the Elisp manual
> didn't reveal anything in this regard. Seaching the archives of this
> list I found this message from RMS:
>
> The standard for Emacs is (default foo). There may be some
> nonstandard functions that use [foo], due to imperfect quality
> control, but we should stick to the standard (unless we decide to
> change it).
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've submitted a bug report
to ensure that this is changed in MH-E.
Can you please clarify the location of the colon? Your update to the
manual says this:
> + Enter value (default 42):
However, "C-x b (switch-to-buffer)" for example shows this:
"Switch to buffer: (default foo) "
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