bug#12443: 24.2.50; Default values in the minibuffer prompt (fix inconsisntecy)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

OK, the first sweep has now landed on master (I basically grepped for
" (default %" and then did the changes.  Boy, were there many different
ways to "optionally add some defaults" in the code...

 78 files changed, 316 insertions(+), 453 deletions(-)

Look at all the lines saved!  :-)

There's also some of the prompting functions that have some support for
this general idea, but in different ways:

(defun read-regexp (prompt &optional defaults history)
[...]
         (input (read-from-minibuffer
                 (cond ((string-match-p ":[ \t]*\\'" prompt)
                        prompt)
                       ((and default (> (length default) 0))
                         (format "%s (default %s): " prompt
                                 (query-replace-descr default)))
                       (t
                        (format "%s: " prompt)))
                 nil nil nil (or history 'regexp-history) suggestions t)))

and

(defun read-input-method-name (prompt &optional default inhibit-null)
[...]
  (if default
      (setq prompt (format prompt default)))

Hm.  I had some further notes in here, but...  I put them in a buffer I
didn't save.

*sigh*

I should go have lunch.  I mean dinner.

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