Re: table.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>     I agree that a change to read-from-minibuffer might introduce problems.
>     That wouldn't bother me, but I won't try to push for it.
>     Instead, we could simply provide a new function which provides the
>     "standard" behavior and tell people that they should use that one
>     instead of read-from-minibuffer.
> This will tend to cause unnecessary user-code incompatibility.

How could it introduce any incompatibility ?

I'm just suggesting adding something like

        (defun std-read-from-minibuffer (prompt &optional keymap hist 
inherit-input-method)
          (read-from-minibuffer
           (concat prompt "(default " (car (symbol-value hist)) ") ")
           nil keymap nil hist (car (symbol-value hist)) inherit-input-method))

to subr.el.


        Stefan