Re: minibuffer-eldef

[Stephan Stahl]

Hi.

David Kastrup said:
> "Stephan Stahl" <address@hidden> writes:
>> That is a nice idea but it seems unnecessary because at most minibuffer
>> prompts M-n pastes the default value into the text entry box.
>
> "most".  And it is something that a new user will never come across
> by chance.  It's not even in the tutorial, and it is not bound to a
> key that a user would actually touch naturally.

"most" will get better with every report as to where it does not work
right now.

Right, i myself learned it just recently.. i'm however not sure were i
read about it :). The thing is just that delete-selection-mode seems to
have nothing to do with default values at minibuffer prompts.
Being able to edit the default value is useful for everyone not just
people that use delete-selection-mode. M-n is already there. So maybe M-n
should be in the tutoraial and some words in the elisp manual telling
developers to provide a default value for every minibuffer prompt because
of M-n ?

-- 
Stephan Stahl