GNU bug report logs - #77063
29.1; ido-read-buffer

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From: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 77063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77063: 29.1; ido-read-buffer
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:50:37 -0700

As to part 1 of 2, the goal is to be able to start Emacs 30.1, (require 'ido), evaluate (ido-read-buffer ...) and be greeted with a prompt displaying the ido rotating choices that looks like this:

PROMPT:  {*scratch* | *Messages* | *GNU Emacs*}

Starting from Emacs 30.1 without any user configuration, if we only evaluate (require 'ido) and then evaluate (ido-read-buffer ....), we do _not_ see any choices following the prompt.  This is because there needs to be call to ido-common-initialization _before_ calling ido-read-internal within ido-read-buffer.  Once ido-common-initialization has been run one time, all subsequent calls to ido-read-buffer work as expected.

As to part 2 of 2, we just press the TAB key after evaluating (ido-read-buffer ...), and C-x o a couple of times to place focus in the choices buffer and select the *Messages* buffer.  Once the *Messages* buffer has been selected and inserted into the minibuffer, we press the RET key and exit ido-read-buffer.  The result that is thrown is *scratch*, which we did not expect.

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> Date: [03-17-2025 09:33:35] <17 Mar 2025 18:33:35 +0200>
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> * * *
> 
> Thanks, but the screenshots don't help.  I need a way to reproduce
> this behavior.  Maybe your recipe was not detailed enough?

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