Re: completing-read depricated initial-input

[Arash Esbati]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> The purpose of `completing-read' is a bit different from `read-string'
> and `read-from-minibuffer'.  Providing INITIAL-INPUT is useful for the
> latter, but much less for `completing-read' in my opinion.  If at all
> (anybody who has a believable real-life example?).

If you have a common prefix which should be shown in the candidates
list, in (La)TeX for instance:

(let ((list '("iffalse" "iftrue" "else" "fi")))
  (completing-read "Macro: "
                   (mapcar (lambda (x) (concat "\\" x)) list)
                   nil nil "\\"))

Something like this looks odd:

(let ((list '("iffalse" "iftrue" "else" "fi")))
  (completing-read "Macro: \\" list))

Best, Arash