Re: completing-read depricated initial-input

[carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

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Jun 21, 2022, 10:26 by rpluim@gmail.com:

>>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:56:59 +0200 (CEST), carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> said:
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> >> Have been reading the docstring of `completing-read`.
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>  >> (completing-read PROMPT COLLECTION &optional PREDICATE REQUIRE-MATCH
>  >> INITIAL-INPUT HIST DEF INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD)
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>  >> INITIAL-INPUT states that this feature is deprecated - it is best to pass nil
>  >> for INITIAL-INPUT and supply the default value DEF instead.  
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>  >> When do you plan to remove the `INITIAL-INPUT` argument from `completing-read`?
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> No such plan exists. At best Emacs could start ignoring that arg, but
> we canʼt just change the signature of such a public function.
>
> Robert
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Have put some explanation on the value of keeping the functionality of `INITIAL-INPUT`, rather than
stopping it having any effect.  I can see the value of using an initial value for certain situations, rather than  always having the field empty, particularly when one has `REQUIRE-MATCH` being `t`.