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Aug 3, 2015 at 20:31
Emacs' read-from-minibuffer is great for common cases, but it's annoying when you want a default:
Define ag/read-from-minibuffer. · Wilfred/ag.el@54a3e3a
Define ag/read-from-minibuffer. · Wilfred/ag.el@54a3e3a
It's remarkably fiddly to read an input, but provide a default if the user doesn't enter a specific value. There's a good discussion of the different argument options (all awkward!) at ...

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