From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11297 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Franklin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Default values Date: 06 Jun 1997 11:06:24 -0700 Sender: paul@cs.washington.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151030 29465 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:57:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA19942 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 12:04:14 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA29077 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 12:04:24 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA08213 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 14:03:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 20:06:30 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 4373 invoked by uid 504); 6 Jun 1997 18:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4370 invoked from network); 6 Jun 1997 18:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: from teapotdome.cs.washington.edu (128.95.1.55) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 1997 18:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: (paul@localhost) by teapotdome.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) id LAA35909; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:06:25 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Andy Eskilsson's message of 05 Jun 1997 10:42:28 +0200 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.39/Emacs 19.34 Original-Lines: 29 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1687 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11297 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11297 >>>>> Andy Eskilsson writes: > Gnus is a bit inconsistent regarding default values.. > for example when outputting to file, the prompt looks something like: > Save this article in mail file : (default comp.lang.python) > Here I am -----------------------------------------------^ There are lots of prompts such as this one where I would prefer to be able to edit the default. The one I use frequently is gnus-summary-move-article. (Splitting isn't perfect.) If I just use the default, the empty response gets placed in the corresponding minibuffer history, which often ends up looking like 10 nnml:-mail.work 11 12 nnml:-uw.cs.proj 13 14 nnml:-mail.junk Moreover, having the default as part of the minibuffer prompt often makes the minibuffer wrap if I supply my own argument. And like Lars says, you can always use C-k to kill the supplied default. What do other people think? If folks like this, I'll add it to my list of patches I need to implement and send to Lars. :) --Paul