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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:13:37 +0200

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maybe the final separator (colon) should be customizable as well.
> What if someone wants to use the same character as used in shell, i.e. '$'.
> Then moving the currently hard-coded colon to the default value
> " (default %s): " will allow the users to customize it to
> " (default %s)$ "

Actually, I changed my mind -- the format-prompt function is about
formatting the default value.  There'll still be many, many prompts out
there that aren't sent through the function, so it'd be inconsistent to
allow changing the ": " on some prompts but not others.

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