GNU bug report logs - #177
23.0.60; doc for read-from-minibuffer

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 21:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#177: 23.0.60; doc for read-from-minibuffer
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 13:51:07 -0700

Arg DEFAULT can now be a list. This is not reflected in the doc string.
 
And the Elisp manual doc is not clear about what happens with non-nil
READ and list-valued DEFAULT:
 
 If READ is non-`nil', then DEFAULT is also used as the input to
     `read', if the user enters empty input.
 
Does this mean the whole list DEFAULT is passed to `read'.
 
Allow me to mention also that letting DEFAULT be a list also breaks
code that I have, FWIW...
 

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-04-19 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'
This bug report was last modified 15 years and 205 days ago.

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