GNU bug report logs - #65348
INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
Cc: heimeborgia <at> protonmail.com, 65348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read repeats same entry twice consecutively
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:14:57 +0300

> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 08:40:12 +0000
> From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
> Cc: Heime <heimeborgia <at> protonmail.com>, 65348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > The Emacs development enhances the existing functionality, and that
> > inevitably makes some situations more complex to handle. That is the
> > price for added functionality, and no one has yet found a way of
> > making software more flexible and powerful without also making it more
> > complex.
> > 
> > > > > > 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.
> > 
> > 
> > Then you will have to override the value of
> > minibuffer-default-add-function with a function of your own.
> 
> You see how things have become even more complicated now.  How about 
> providing the feature that there was ?   

I explained above why this happens, so there's no need to reiterate.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.