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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How to handle default value in read-string?
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 23:00:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2tc9jeu.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)

Hi everybody,

I'd like read-string to somehow indicate the default value.  A natural
idea is to include it in the prompt, for example having a prompt like

(format "Foo (%s): " default)

However, Icicles' version of read-string already does exactly that, so
for Icicles users this would be superfluous.

So here's the question: is there a better way than just have a prompt of

(if icicle-mode (don't-include-default) (do-include-default))?

TIA,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-03 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-03 21:00 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-08-03 21:17 ` How to handle default value in read-string? John Mastro
2015-08-03 23:40   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-03 23:51 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-04 18:44   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-19 21:15   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-21  7:46     ` Drew Adams
2015-08-05 20:02 ` Emanuel Berg

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