Re: [External] : Re: completing-read depricated initial-input

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2022 at 4:41 AM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [External] : Re: completing-read depricated initial-input
>
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
> > Another example:
> > (completing-read "Color: " (defined-colors)
> >                  nil nil (buffer-substring-no-properties
> >                          (widget-field-start widget)
> >                          (point)))
>
> And the Gnu Emacs sources themselves contain dozens (around 40) examples
> of nontrivial uses of that argument (not all may be justified, but at
> least some are).
>
> So it seems there are indeed valid use cases.
>
> Michael.

The discouragement on the use of initial-value should be removed as well
as any deprecation statements.