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27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, schwab <at> suse.de,
 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, 37883 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37883: 27.0.50; read-file-name: Scrambled INITIAL
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:04:52 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Would someone like to suggest a documentation change to clarify these
> issues?

The semantics of INITIAL are very odd, and I'm not sure they can be
explained.  So I've now added some hand-waving to the doc read-file-name
doc string, which should at least allow the users to know that it's a
bit odd.

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