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Joakim Hove <hove@ift.uib.no> writes:

>> What about doing this instead:
>>
>>  (interactive)
>>  ...
>>  (read-directory-name "Enter dir: " "~/")
>
> Sure thing - I had tried "apropos ing" for something like that, but
> had not found it. Thanks a lot.

When on the subject, all these functions seems start with "read-",
read-string, read-file-name etc. Nice to know.

/Mathias