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Is the use of nil for INITIAL-INPUT > > consistent with the future plan about INITIAL-INPUT ? Having the abil= ity > > to prefill the minibuffer with a collection entry is perfectly reasona= ble > > expectation for people to use. > > There are no plans to remove INITIAL-INPUT, if that's what you are > asking. We cannot possibly remove it, ever. The argument is not > deprecated; its _use_ is "deprecated" (a.k.a. "discouraged"), that's > all. INITIAL-INPUT is basically meant for prefilling the minibuffer with an ent= ry. Do not see anything to encourage or discourage. Perhaps renaming it would= be more appropriate to describe what actually happens ? > There's no problem here. Then there is no problem.