From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, 37883@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:53:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a79reco4.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h83zfviq.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:20:45 +0200")
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> The docstring of `read-file-name' says
>
> If DEFAULT-FILENAME is omitted or nil, then if INITIAL is non-nil, the
> default is DIR combined with INITIAL
But I'm talking about the initial minibuffer contents, not the default.
Is it due to historic reasons that the initial contents resemble this
default?
What you cite also doesn't explain why this combination happens in the
way it does. The doubled ~/ seems not useful, and the /: is...some
Tramp thing?
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-23 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-23 9:23 bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-23 9:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-10-23 12:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-23 13:20 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-23 14:53 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2019-10-23 16:24 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-25 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-28 16:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-23 15:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
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