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bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice con
From: |
Heime |
Subject: |
bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:27:47 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, August 19th, 2023 at 12:14 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 08:40:12 +0000
> > From: uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me
> > Cc: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com, 65348@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > The Emacs development enhances the existing functionality, and that
> > > inevitably makes some situations more complex to handle. That is the
> > > price for added functionality, and no one has yet found a way of
> > > making software more flexible and powerful without also making it more
> > > complex.
> > >
> > > > > > > Why do you need INITIAL?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I want the user to see a default without having him to get it with
> > > > > > the bloody "M-n".
> > > > >
> > > > > That's not how you show the default to the user. The way to show the
> > > > > default to the user is to include it in the prompt, like so:
> > > > >
> > > > > Type your choice (default foo):
> > > >
> > > > I do not want the user to type it, but for it to be displayed
> > > > automatically.
> > > > And if theyy do not want the default, they can step to the next
> > > > possibility
> > > > in COLLECTION.
> > >
> > > Then you will have to override the value of
> > > minibuffer-default-add-function with a function of your own.
> >
> > You see how things have become even more complicated now. How about
> > providing the feature that there was ?
>
> I explained above why this happens, so there's no need to reiterate.
Why have users make new functions to override the value of
'minibuffer-default-add-function' when you can have the sensible feature
that many would like to use available !
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, (continued)
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/08/17
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Heime, 2023/08/17
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Drew Adams, 2023/08/17
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/08/17
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Heime, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Heime, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, uzibalqa, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively,
Heime <=
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Heime, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Heime, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Drew Adams, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Drew Adams, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Heime, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Drew Adams, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Heime, 2023/08/18
- bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively, Drew Adams, 2023/08/18