Re: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.]

[Richard M. Stallman]

    Yes, but only because Emacs interprets the minibuffer contents as /foo
    although it is /tmp//foo.
    IMHO that is not very elegant. And it does not work as a general
    approach: Consider some command with initial value foo, and imagine the
    user types bar. How would Emacs know if he means foobar (minibuffer
    contents) or just bar?

Could we please drop this argument?  I'm not going to change this, and
the discussion is a distraction from work that needs to be done.