From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
Subject: Re: announcing defaults when reading from minibuffer
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:47:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764tovav6.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mhddatfl1.fsf@tiscali.de
Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net> writes:
> I've just asked myself if there's any convention for announcing
> defaults when reading from minibuffer. Skimming the Elisp manual
> didn't reveal anything in this regard. Seaching the archives of this
> list I found this message from RMS:
>
> The standard for Emacs is (default foo). There may be some
> nonstandard functions that use [foo], due to imperfect quality
> control, but we should stick to the standard (unless we decide to
> change it).
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've submitted a bug report
to ensure that this is changed in MH-E.
Can you please clarify the location of the colon? Your update to the
manual says this:
> + Enter value (default 42):
However, "C-x b (switch-to-buffer)" for example shows this:
"Switch to buffer: (default foo) "
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-29 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-28 12:23 announcing defaults when reading from minibuffer Emilio Lopes
2005-08-29 8:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-29 17:23 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-08-29 18:47 ` Bill Wohler [this message]
2005-08-30 10:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
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