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Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:28:43 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> > Because there's a lot of past experience where people want to have the
> > Windows-style behavior where prompts get prefilled with the (selected)
> > default, and they don't understand that in order to get that they need
> > to change `completing-read`. So instead they abuse `initial-content` in
> > their code (even though it doesn't give quite the same behavior either
> > but gets the closer).
>
> Would it be possible to tell users the rest of that?
> That is, to tell them what to do instead of using INITIAL-CONTENT?
> Ideally it should tell them what mode to enable to get that behavior
> for Emacs completion generally.
It's mostly waiting for someone to write the code. Then it's just
a matter of setting a boolean config var.
Stefan
- Re: [External] : Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, (continued)
Re: [External] : Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Jean Louis, 2022/06/28
Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Jean Louis, 2022/06/28
Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read, Richard Stallman, 2022/06/29