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-rw-r--r--lisp/minibuffer.el5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el
index 917879fb692..c9f58239403 100644
--- a/lisp/minibuffer.el
+++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el
@@ -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