Re: Use region as initial search regexp

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Roland Winkler <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu May 23 2019 Marco Wahl wrote:
>> What do you think about using the region as initial value for
>> bbdb-search-read?  See the (small amount of) code below.
>
> Minor point: the 2nd arg INITIAL-INPUT of read-string is
> depreciated.  New code should use instead DEFAULT-VALUE, see the
> docstring of read-string.  (I believe the reason for this policy
> change has been that some people find a non-nil INITIAL-INPUT too
> obtrusive.)  However, using the region as DEFAULT-VALUE wouldn't
> allow one to edit this string as an argument for bbdb-search-read.
> So in other code I have copied the value of the region to the input
> history (provided the region is active).  Then you can step through
> the input history with C-p and C-n in the usual way.

FWIW, DEFAULT-VALUE is made available for editing via M-n
(next-history-element).

> One can even in the end again remove the region from the input history
> if the user decided to use a modified string or she did something
> completely different (so that the input history is not getting
> populated with anything irrelvant).

Thanks,

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Basil