From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] org-insert-link should use DEFAULT in read-string when asking for description
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 17:48:45 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <svfkuf$17i5$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h78lk917.fsf@gmail.com>
On 26/02/2022 21:16, Visuwesh wrote:
> [சனி, பிப்ரவரி 26 2022] Max Nikulin wrote:
>
>> Are you suggesting replacing
>> (read-string "rs-initial: " "Some initial")
>> by
>> (read-string "rs-default: " nil nil "Some default")
>> ?
>
> Yes, exactly.
However you agreed that it would be regression since empty description
use case would be impossible.
> I admit that I forgot about this but Emacs can be made to not translate
> empty string to the default argument if you DTRT when calling
> `read-from-minibuffer' (and `read-shell-command' does this). If writing
> a new function just to get this functionality is too much, then I guess
`read-shell-command' still has INITIAL argument and it is used by
various callers (vc, grep). In addition, unlike for link description, I
do not see any point in empty shell command (e.g. in vim :! allows to
see output of previous shell command). So `read-shell-command' may
behave quite differently.
Current way to ask for link description has the following properties:
- Almost no action (just RET) if the user happy with suggested
description. Default description is provided with hope that it is the
most convenient option.
- It is possible to erase everything and to get a link with no description.
- The user is free to replace default description with arbitrary
alternative text.
It is unclear for me how to tame `read-from-minibuffer' to get equally
convenient behavior using DEFAULT argument instead of formally
deprecated INITIAL one.
> I can live with the current behaviour, but this inconsistency is an
> annoyance since I end up with garbled link names, which I only notice
> _afterwards_.
Sorry, but I have not figured out what particular problem you met.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-27 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-25 14:19 [BUG] org-insert-link should use DEFAULT in read-string when asking for description Visuwesh
2022-02-26 8:50 ` Max Nikulin
2022-02-26 14:16 ` Visuwesh
2022-02-27 10:48 ` Max Nikulin [this message]
2022-02-27 16:16 ` Visuwesh
2022-03-01 16:36 ` Max Nikulin
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