From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: completing-read depricated initial-input Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:41:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87pmizmixf.fsf@web.de> References: <86r13hubaw.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <86letphfke.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <86mte3lsj2.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <871qvfoce1.fsf@web.de> <865ykrzigy.fsf@gnu.org> <87tu8bmnzf.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15817"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:hwd5MhAuntrzaSK+fd6XypIDNO8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 23 18:42:37 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1o4Puf-0003uF-11 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:42:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59816 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o4Pud-0004Jk-Vj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o4PtX-00044c-NN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:49850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o4PtW-0004Eu-4H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o4PtT-0002Xs-LW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:41:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138030 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > Another example: > (completing-read "Color: " (defined-colors) > nil nil (buffer-substring-no-properties > (widget-field-start widget) > (point))) And the Gnu Emacs sources themselves contain dozens (around 40) examples of nontrivial uses of that argument (not all may be justified, but at least some are). So it seems there are indeed valid use cases. Michael.