read-from-minibuffer INITIAL-CONTENTS/DEFAULT-VALUE

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Historically, Emacs has used to put text in INITIAL-CONTENTS for a bunch
of commands, but has, over the years, moved to putting the defaults in
DEFAULT-VALUE so that the user has to type `M-n' to get at them.

Overall, I think this is a good change...  but for a bunch of commands,
I really would like to have what's in DEFAULT-VALUE to be in
INITIAL-CONTENTS instead.  It's a lot more ergonomic (for me) for a
number of commands, and reading a bunch of bug reports over the years,
apparently for a number of users as well.

So it would be nice if there was a way to tweak this.

An obvious way would be to offer an option that would just put
DEFAULT-VALUE in INITIAL-CONTENTS always.  It'd be trivial to implement,
and I'm sure somebody would want this for all commands.

An if somebody wants this action for some commands only, they could add
:around advice to the commands in question.

Or we could allow tweaking this in the symbol plists.

Any opinions?

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