Subject: bug#56531: bug#56532: 27.2; Ido C-f in read-file-name inserts twice the initial name

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:07:59 +0200

Tobias Bora <[email-masked]> writes:

> Dear maintainers,
>
> If you enable ido with (setq ido-auto-merge-work-directories-length -1)
> and evaluate:
>
> (read-file-name  "Picture name:" "/tmp" nil nil "defaultname.png")
>
> and go at the end of the buffer with C-e (not sure why the cursor is not
> there by default), and press C-f to come back to a normal file prompt
> (not using ido),

Are there some missing bits in this recipe?  `C-f' after eval-ing that
form just moves point, it doesn't change what's prompted for.

In any case, in Emacs directories are supposed to end with a slash, so
the correct syntax would be:

(read-file-name  "Picture name:" "/tmp/" nil nil "defaultname.png")

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