Thanks for thinking of this. It seems to me that a better
place to put this is in the Tips appendix--do you agree?
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with a period.
@item
+ When you mention a default value in a minibuffer prompt,
+ put it and the word @samp{default} inside parentheses.
+ It should look like this:
+
+ @example
+ Enter the answer (default 42):
+ @end example
+
+ @item
In @code{interactive}, if you use a Lisp expression to produce a list
of arguments, don't try to provide the ``correct'' default values for
region or position arguments. Instead, provide @code{nil} for those
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