From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 37883@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:40:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvm36fjsstt.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgnj24t8.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:23:47 +0200")
On Okt 23 2019, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> in emacs -Q (with default-directory -> ~/)
>
> (read-file-name-default "File: " nil nil nil "~/.bash_history" nil)
>
> prompts with default minibuffer contents "/:~/~/.bash_history". No part
> of that is shadowed (to indicate which part is meaningful). Without
> fully understanding how the initial contents are calculated, it doesn't
> seem very useful with the doubled ~/. Why can't INITIAL be used
> literally?
I think INITIAL is supposed to be a file name component, not a full file
name. (The manual also discourages the use of INITIAL.)
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-23 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-23 9:23 bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-23 9:40 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2019-10-23 12:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-23 13:20 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-23 14:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-23 16:24 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-25 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-28 16:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-23 15:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
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