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

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Message #90 received at 65348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Heime <heimeborgia <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 "65348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <65348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: bug#65348: INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read
 repeats same entry twice consecutively
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:07:19 +0000

> > > When using my own function that selects from a collection, I am never
> > > interested in the history. Just want it to cycle through the entries,
> > > that's all. And the less things I got to type, the better.
> >
> > Everyone is different.
> 
> Fine.  But I cannot see the reason to forced mo to override the value of
> 'minibuffer-default-add-function' with a function of my own.

I have nothing to say about that variable,
except to repeat what I already said about
the Emacs change to add COLLECTION to the
future history: It's a misguided misfeature.

Never shoulda happened.  Isn't helpful.
Just one opinion.

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