Re: Read-string with pointer at start of initial value

[Michael Heerdegen]

Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie@gmail.com> writes:

> I want to call read-string with the pointer at the start of the
> initial value [...]

(read-from-minibuffer "String: " (cons "Test" 1))

`read-string' does also accept a cons as INITIAL-INPUT to specify the
cursor position, so the following also works:

(read-string "String: " (cons "Test" 1))

but the docstring discourages its use.


Michael.