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INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively

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From: Heime <heimeborgia <at> protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 65348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry
 twice consecutively
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:56:04 +0000

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On Friday, August 18th, 2023 at 5:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:13:46 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia <at> protonmail.com
> > Cc: 65348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > > You can have it there. It does work.
> > 
> > But you are designating it as deprecated, which makes others think that something
> > awful is going to happen to it.
> 
> 
> The manual tells you what to do instead.

This used to be easy for beginners.  Now it has became complicated.  Had hoped 
the plan for the future was to improve things for beginners, now everything has
started to get modified for use mostly by experts.     
 
> > > Why do you need INITIAL?
> > 
> > I want the user to see a default without having him to get it with the bloody "M-n".
> 
> 
> That's not how you show the default to the user. The way to show the
> default to the user is to include it in the prompt, like so:
> 
> Type your choice (default foo):

I do not want the user to type it, but for it to be displayed automatically.
And if theyy do not want the default, they can step to the next possibility
in COLLECTION.

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