This is actually an FSFmacs synch to make VC work correctly. (Complete patch for VC to follow tomorrow.) I'd have liked to synch all the minibuffer stuff, but I guess that'll have to wait until 21.1. lisp/ChangeLog 1998-05-13 Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; * minibuf.el (minibuffer-default): Added variable; compatible with FSF Emacs. (next-history-element): Used `minibuffer-default'. Index: lisp/minibuf.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-20/lisp/minibuf.el,v retrieving revision 1.9 diff -u -r1.9 minibuf.el --- minibuf.el 1998/04/29 23:03:45 1.9 +++ minibuf.el 1998/05/13 23:29:34 ＠＠ -115,6 +115,9 ＠＠ (defvar minibuffer-help-form nil "Value that `help-form' takes on inside the minibuffer.") +(defvar minibuffer-default nil + "Default value for minibuffer input.") + (defvar minibuffer-local-map (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap 'minibuffer-local-map))) map) ＠＠ -1290,8 +1293,9 ＠＠ initial-minibuffer-history-position) (setq current-minibuffer-contents (buffer-string) current-minibuffer-point (point))) - (let ((narg (- minibuffer-history-position n))) - (cond ((< narg 0) + (let ((narg (- minibuffer-history-position n)) + (minimum (if minibuffer-default -1 0))) + (cond ((< narg minimum) (error "No following item in %s" minibuffer-history-variable)) ((> narg (length (symbol-value minibuffer-history-variable))) (error "No preceding item in %s" minibuffer-history-variable))) ＠＠ -1301,8 +1305,10 ＠＠ (progn (insert current-minibuffer-contents) (goto-char current-minibuffer-point)) - (let ((elt (nth (1- minibuffer-history-position) - (symbol-value minibuffer-history-variable)))) + (let ((elt (if (>= narg 0) + (nth (1- minibuffer-history-position) + (symbol-value minibuffer-history-variable)) + minibuffer-default))) (insert (if (not (stringp elt)) (let ((print-level nil)) -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla