Subject: Re: [External] : bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:40:17 +0300

> From: Christopher Dimech <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]"
>  <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]"
>  <[email-masked]>, Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:21:40 +0200
> 
> Eli, there needs to be some clarification.

I think the situation is clear, you (not necessarily you personally)
are just splitting hair and desperately looking for problems where
there are none.

> What is the situation exactly ? Is the use of nil for INITIAL-INPUT
> consistent with the future plan about INITIAL-INPUT ?  Having the ability
> to prefill the minibuffer with a collection entry is perfectly reasonable
> expectation for people to use.

There are no plans to remove INITIAL-INPUT, if that's what you are
asking.  We cannot possibly remove it, ever.  The argument is not
deprecated; its _use_ is "deprecated" (a.k.a. "discouraged"), that's
all.

There's no problem here.