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Improve the read-file-name doc string slightly

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* lisp/minibuffer.el (read-file-name): Note that the semantics of
INITIAL are odd (bug#37883).
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Lars Ingebrigtsen 2022-01-28 17:03:14 +01:00
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@ -3066,7 +3066,10 @@ Fourth arg MUSTMATCH can take the following values:
- anything else behaves like t except that typing RET does not exit if it
does non-null completion.
Fifth arg INITIAL specifies text to start with.
Fifth arg INITIAL specifies text to start with. It will be
interpreted as the trailing part of DEFAULT-FILENAME, so using a
full file name for INITIAL will usually lead to surprising
results.
Sixth arg PREDICATE, if non-nil, should be a function of one
argument; then a file name is considered an acceptable completion