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bug#13045: 24.2.90; dired-guess-shell-command: default in prompt after c


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#13045: 24.2.90; dired-guess-shell-command: default in prompt after colon
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 02:50:59 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> I think it is a good idea to add a new magic options to Emacs which
> will, if customised, unconditionally add the default value, if there is
> one, to the minibuffer prompt.  WDYT?

Indeed a new magic option would be good like proposed in
http://debbugs.gnu.org/12443

This could also display the number of available default values
and the first default, e.g. a customized option:

(defcustom minibuffer-default-prompt-format " (%i defaults, %s)"
 "Default format."
 :type 'string)

Then for your example `dired-guess-shell-command' could display:

    ! on rms.tar (3 defaults, tar xvf):





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