From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>,
"Codruț Constantin Gușoi" <mail@codrut.pro>
Cc: "50811@debbugs.gnu.org" <50811@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#50811: [External] : bug#50811: 28.0.50; Misleading Docstring for read-string function
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:17:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54885FBD3ABD4C569BF32BA8F3A79@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877df2ps02.fsf@gnus.org>
> The point is that we want to move away from pre-filled prompts in
> Emacs, and instead put the default in the "future history", i.e., say
> (read-string "PROMPT " nil nil "B")
> and then the user should `M-n' to edit the default.
Yes, and that "moving away" is misguided, IMHO.
There was never any reason to call INITIAL-INPUT
obsolete.
It's not either-or.
Just because `M-n' and DEFAULTS are useful, that's
never been a logical reason to make INITIAL-INPUT
obsolete.
(Oh, and that misguided deprecation was proclaimed
long before we allowed DEFAULTS to be a list and
not just a single value.)
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2021-09-26 8:28 bug#50811: 28.0.50; Misleading Docstring for read-string function mail--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27 4:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-27 4:35 ` mail--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27 4:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-27 4:56 ` mail--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27 5:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-27 15:22 ` bug#50811: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-27 15:17 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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