Input foobar "Enter Value -> "

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:46:53AM -0400, GCC Consulting wrote:
> Question:
> 
> Can one prefill a value in an input statement with a default value?

thats what "input popup" is for.

that being said, i ran into an undocumented limit of 77 characters in 
input popup so i had to solve this with regular input command once before.

do it with pushkey.

in the below example, dummy variable 'em' holds a default email address:

pushkey mid(em,"2","999") { repeat("[LTAB]","60") & "[INSC]" & mid(em,"1","1") & "[CLFT]"
input em "Enter email address: "

the mess with LTAB/INSC/CLFT was so that I could both put the cursor in the
beginning of the field at input and handle a default value that was the
maximum length of the field.  Thanks to ken on this one as i mistakenly
thought a simple [HOME] key would do the trick but it isn't respected by
input command.

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