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bug#50811: 28.0.50; Misleading Docstring for read-string function
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#50811: 28.0.50; Misleading Docstring for read-string function |
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Mon, 27 Sep 2021 06:40:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Codruț Constantin Gușoi <mail@codrut.pro> writes:
> That's exactly the behaviour I need for renaming a file, for example; a
> prompt pre-filled with the current filename. It's the same UX as in every
> other program that does this sort of functionality and the extra keypress
> makes it harder to use.
I wasn't part of the discussions when this happened (I think it was more
than a decade ago), but I think the idea was that users were annoyed
that (in many cases) they had to remove the default completely before
being able to type stuff in.
That is, with
(read-string "PROMPT " "This is the very long default")
you have to delete all that before you can type in "foo", which is what
you wanted to say. (Or `C-a C-k' is you're an expert.)
Putting the default in the "future history" means that the user can type
"foo" immediately (if they want that), or RET if they want the default,
or `M-n' if they want to edit the default.
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