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

[Drew Adams]

> > 1. There are uses for an initial-input arg.
> 
> I've only seen one use case for inserting the initial value
> and it's the completion one,

You keep repeating that, and it's wrong.
See my response to another of your mails
today that repeats the same thing.

> I don't like that to begin with

You don't have to like it.  You don't have
to use it in your code.  It's an optional
parameter.

A different question is whether you have to
use some code that uses it.  Ideally users
would have a _general_ way of expressing an
individual preference such as yours.  That's
different from _removing_ the possibility of
providing such behavior.

> and with this use case I like it even less
> since basically the computer then tells the
> user "Okay, this is as far as I can take
> you, now you start complete your way thru
> the rest of the jungle without me".

Nonsense.  Boogeyman?

Show da codez if you really have something to
say there.

> > 2. Automatic insertion of the default value
> >    can be useful and preferred by some users.
> >    Let users choose.
> 
> Make that an option

Did you read what I wrote?  I detailed just
such an option.

> rather than have the programer give the default
> value twice to the same function.

Did anyone suggest giving the default value twice
to the same function?  I wonder if you read the
message you're replying to.