bug#73412: 31.0.50; Improve sql-read-product

[Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:21:03 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:32:16 +0200
>> From:  Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> 0. emacs -Q
>> 1. C-u M-x sql-product-interactive RET
>>
>> Now the minbuffer displays the following:
>>
>> SQL product: ansi
>>
>> so it you want to change the product, e.g. to postgres, you first have
>> to delete "ansi".
>>
>> Likewise, `M-x sql-set-product RET' produces the same minbuffer display,
>> requiring deletion to change the product.
>>
>> The reason "ansi" is displayed after the prompt is that the definition
>> of sql-read-product uses the same non-nil value of the deprecated
>> argument INITIAL-INPUT as is used for the argument DEF.  The attached
>> patch makes INITIAL-INPUT nil, thus using only DEF, and also wraps the
>> prompt argument of sql-read-product in format-prompt, so the default
>> value is shown as part of the prompt and changing it does not require
>> deletion.  The patch also adjusts the two callers of sql-read-product
>> accordingly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I think this should go to the emacs-30 branch, no?

I agree and did so in commit c1f2501f55d and am closing the bug.  Since
this is a minor UI update and improvement with no change in
functionality I assume it does not need to be called out in NEWS, right?

Steve Berman