Re: table.el

[Richard Stallman]

    I'd just change it so that if the last non-whitespace character in the
    user-supplied prompt is `:' or `?', then it inserts the (default foo)
    before that character, otherwise simply append like it does now.

I guess that sounds right.

    The only possibly common case that might run afoul of such an approach
    is prompt that already contain a parenthesized expression before the
    final colon, like apropos `Foo (regexp): ', which would be transformed
    into  `Foo (regexp) (default foo): ' -- which is not pretty, but it's
    still readable...

It could produce `Foo (regexp, default foo): ' in that case.