From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Doc of deprecated INITIAL-INPUT arg of completing-read Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:08:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87v8smt9lp.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16585"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 05:09:02 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o6kYA-00044a-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:09:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46978 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6kY8-0001Bc-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6kXU-0000Rz-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6kXU-0001ri-BU; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:08:20 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=LYfMG0tGKdCN8EqZIborzAi/9H4+hWW0ZGlDk9Q7J8M=; b=JbXXHhk18Cj9 5yiPb2PVuTG7TVgKI6Ke7S3v68pCzJI/mxLWLFzZQMU4ezWNb/7Aw2zM+MzeSeWlUBhKVnFFpaORC fmFWffB7n4TmWkmQHzPEYCo6GJwiXVsvBoehRfclEmiwo0JBHLSMZFDURd8bP9ZAbRxwcGe7Uel50 LwQhLqklDaNul8Pd64qUKyOyCZmKD4PB4TumBJeDVQU9vmTwTcbYyAaHTULFKc+2YZVtMvLzv0hiD MnGLweHcfmsEokgSQtHVTuHl1kkaEkTz8MljbSDd7rkFbdeZGjT+FjFxr+Amtn3+CarZgKFk8lYoS lKXTA9/cYdLF6HaoHa1QGg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6kXU-0003lD-4F; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:08:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:15:57 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:291727 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I have many use cases for initial-input, when making calls I need to > make a note, and I like entering new date and time automatically as > initial input, so that I do not need to invoke keys in minibuffer. Is there a reason not to handle this the way most commands do? That is to use the current or last-used date-time as the default, if the argument is empty. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)