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24.2.50; Default values in the minibuffer prompt (fix

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 12443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#12443: 24.2.50; Default values in the minibuffer prompt (fix inconsisntecy)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:13:37 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> 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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