On Fri, Aug 23 2013, Christopher Wellons <wellons@nullprogram.com> wrote: > Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes: > >>> I agree that this behaves better, but the empty content with completing-read >>> looks a bit confusing (if arrow keys or tab aren't pressed) > > You're right. Taking a look at this with completing-read I see it's not > obvious what defaulting will do. > >> we could also drop the default/initial input: > > The default is usually what I want to select, so I like being able to > just hit tab/enter to select it. > >>> I don't know how ido-replaced completing-read (just ido-completing-read ?) >>> works there, though. > > I'm using ido-ubiquitous, which installs ido-completing-read overtop > completing-read along with some compatability tweaks. The compatibility tweaks doesn't seem to be enough ;/ One option would be to so somehow to detect that completing-read is actually replaced with something (anything?) else and arrange the arguments differently. I think in this case such a feature could be tolerated... :D Tomi