Re: completing-read in E21

[Mario Lang]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     But there are situations where the default is the right value for
>     say 90% of the time the function gets called.
> 
> This is a reason to provide a default, not a reason for initial input.
> Why do you think a default value is not sufficient?

Because in the case where the default value is e.g. determined
through thing-at-point, the user would need to hit M-n RET
instead of just RET.

Imagine a user positions point at some word in a buffer, and
calls a interactive function to do some operation on that word.
This function uses e.g. thing-at-point to get that "default" value.
If it uses completion-read with a default-value, the user needs
to hit `M-n RET'  if it uses a initial-input, the user would
only need to hit `RET', but has the option to hit C-k and type
another word, in case thing-at-point didnt find the right one, or point
was at the wrong place.

Thats just one example of initial-input being useful.

-- 
CYa,
   Mario <address@hidden>