[PATCH] Switch to DEF from INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read.

Christopher Wellons wellons at nullprogram.com
Thu Aug 22 19:11:37 PDT 2013


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:

>> I agree that this behaves better, but the empty content with completing-read
>> looks a bit confusing (if arrow keys or tab aren't pressed)

You're right. Taking a look at this with completing-read I see it's not
obvious what defaulting will do.

> we could also drop the default/initial input:

The default is usually what I want to select, so I like being able to
just hit tab/enter to select it.

>> I don't know how ido-replaced completing-read (just ido-completing-read ?)
>> works there, though.

I'm using ido-ubiquitous, which installs ido-completing-read overtop
completing-read along with some compatability tweaks.


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