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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: lisp read-from-minibuffer propels deep questions
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> slightly frustrated with emacs lisp read-from-minibuffer.

Then don't use it.  It's mostly an internal function used to implement
things like read-string, read-file-name, read-directory-name, ...


        Stefan