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Make the minibuffer prompt always have a default argument

Is it possible to make the first history item available as the default argument when running commands like eval-expression and goto-line? I'd like to be able to just press enter to use the previous ...
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How do you target the present directory, once in a while, with do-what-I-mean enabled?

After setting Dired do-what-I-mean (setq dired-dwim-target t) which, quoting the man pages If non-nil, Dired tries to guess a default target directory. This means: if there is a Dired buffer ...
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Display path and filename in a minibuffer

Eval this code: (defun xx-display-filename (filename) "" (interactive "Ffilename: ") (message (concat "Filename is: " filename))) Let's assume that I am editing a ~/.emacs.d/personal/custom.el ...
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