From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12443: 24.2.50; Default values in the minibuffer prompt (fix inconsisntecy) Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:50:06 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87mu1y6c59.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <871ui48di4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <878se2aox0.fsf@gnus.org> <87imd669dh.fsf@gnus.org> <875z961u2l.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <871rjt1uc1.fsf@gnus.org> <878se0gc25.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87imd2vp1k.fsf@gnus.org> <87sgbv7xtn.fsf@gnus.org> <877dt6er29.fsf@gnus.org> <87363tbe58.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87wo154cbd.fsf@gnus.org> <87ft7si0fn.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87v9gogg3s.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10234"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 12443@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 21:11:02 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1kG5Uk-0002YD-6I for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:11:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54574 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5Uj-00031V-97 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:11:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5Ox-0000si-JD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51413) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5Ox-00023S-8i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5Ox-0005RR-3Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:05:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:05:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12443 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 12443-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12443.159967824720801 (code B ref 12443); Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:05:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12443) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Sep 2020 19:04:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34716 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5O2-0005PR-VC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from relay8-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.201]:56989) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5O0-0005Ou-9M for 12443@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:04:05 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.97.241 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-97-241.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.97.241]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay8-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B8F9F1BF205; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 19:03:56 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87v9gogg3s.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 08 Sep 2020 22:37:11 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:187694 Archived-At: > Sixth arg DEFAULT-VALUE, if non-nil, should be a string, which is used > as the default to ‘read’ if READ is non-nil and the user enters > empty input. But if READ is nil, this function does _not_ return > DEFAULT-VALUE for empty input! Instead, it returns the empty string. > > But what a... strange interface. It seems this "default" value is needed here only for convenience of retrieving it into the minibuffer for editing using the M-n key.