Subject: Re: bug#12443: 24.2.50; Default values in the minibuffer prompt (fix inconsisntecy)

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 21:27:34 +0200

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

> Are you sure about this change in 1921d2176b?

No, I found it kinda puzzling.

>            (tab-name (alist-get 'name (nth (1- tab-index) tabs))))
>       (list (read-from-minibuffer
> -            "New name for tab (leave blank for automatic naming): "
> +            (format-prompt "New name for tab" tab-name)
>              nil nil nil nil tab-name)

The "automatic naming" defaults to tab-name, which is

  (alist-get 'name (nth (1- tab-index) tabs))

In my tests that was never nil, so the "leave blank" didn't seem
possible (and seemed misleading).  But I may well have missed something?

That is, there is no real way to get "automatic naming" interactively?

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