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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 15:16:12 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> It seems 'format-prompt' should not use 'minibuffer-default-prompt-format'
>>> when 'default' is nil.
>> nil is a perfectly valid default value in many prompts.
>
> No, `nil` should mean there's no default.
> `"nil"` is a perfectly valid default value, OTOH.

I imagined there was a read-symbol function in use somewhere that used
symbols for completion/defaults, but apparently not -- it's all
completing-read with an intern at the end?

I'll adjust read-prompt to interpret a nil default as "no default".

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