Subject: bug#33007: 27.0.50; Proposal for function to edit and return string

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:36:59 +0300

> From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:49:19 +0200
> 
> 
> I would like to propose function for GNU Emacs so that there is
> function to edit and return the string.
> 
> It would be equivalent to read-from-minibuffer only that we shall have
> function to edit in the whole buffer, not just in one line in mini
> buffer.

We already have read-string, I think it does what you want.