From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:08:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1o6kXR-0003jg-Ni@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr138338y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:10:47 -0400)
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> Because there's a lot of past experience where people want to have the
> Windows-style behavior where prompts get prefilled with the (selected)
> default, and they don't understand that in order to get that they need
> to change `completing-read`. So instead they abuse `initial-content` in
> their code (even though it doesn't give quite the same behavior either
> but gets the closer).
Would it be possible to tell users the rest of that?
That is, to tell them what to do instead of using INITIAL-CONTENT?
Ideally it should tell them what mode to enable to get that behavior
for Emacs completion generally.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-30 3:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-27 15:22 Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-27 16:33 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-06-27 17:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-28 16:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-28 16:40 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-29 13:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-29 14:24 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-28 21:46 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-29 9:15 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-29 13:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-30 9:10 ` Arash Esbati
2022-07-04 12:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-28 19:17 ` [External] : " Jean Louis
2022-06-28 19:15 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-28 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-28 22:00 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-29 2:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-30 3:08 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-06-30 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-02-13 14:43 ` Tim Landscheidt
2024-02-13 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-02-13 17:07 ` Tim Landscheidt
2024-02-13 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-02-15 8:21 ` Tim Landscheidt
2024-02-15 16:09 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-02-15 18:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-02-17 17:12 ` Tim Landscheidt
2024-02-17 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-30 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-01 5:54 ` Jean Louis
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