Re: read-regexp

[Juri Linkov]

>> I thought that the name STRING-DESCRIBING-DEFAULT is too long and clumsy
>> but had no better idea.  Unless you want to propose a better name, I will
>> rename the argument DEFAULT of `read-regexp' to the same name
>> STRING-DESCRIBING-DEFAULT as below with docstring fixes:
>
> DEFAULT-VALUE sounds good enough to me, but please also make sure that
> the doc string does not hint it is somehow related to the "additional
> defaults".  In fact, I suggest to rephrase the last sentence of the
> doc string such that it doesn't use the word "defaults", but instead
> explains that those are values you pass to read-from-minibuffer for
> making them available via M-n.

Ok, this could be rephrased as:

  "Values available via M-n are the string at point, the last isearch
   regexp, the last isearch string, and the last replacement regexp."

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Juri Linkov
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