Re: [External] : Re: completing-read depricated initial-input

[Michael Heerdegen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Another example:
> (completing-read "Color: " (defined-colors)
>                  nil nil (buffer-substring-no-properties
>                            (widget-field-start widget)
>                            (point)))

And the Gnu Emacs sources themselves contain dozens (around 40) examples
of nontrivial uses of that argument (not all may be justified, but at
least some are).

So it seems there are indeed valid use cases.

Michael.