Re: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.]

[Lars Hansen]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>As far as I understand you, the current interface has been doing what
>you say for several decades.
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>
Yes, but only because Emacs interprets the minibuffer contents as /foo
although it is /tmp//foo.
IMHO that is not very elegant. And it does not work as a general
approach: Consider some command with initial value foo, and imagine the
user types bar. How would Emacs know if he means foobar (minibuffer
contents) or just bar?