From: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 46884@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46884: [PATCH] 27.1; Cannot run find-dired with -maxdepth
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 20:50:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80ft1bed4g.fsf@felesatra.moe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ft1c62hk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:55:03 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
>>
>> This is okay, IMO, but it would be better to allow the user to specify
>> GLOBAL-ARGS interactively if the user invokes the command with a
>> prefix argument.
>>
>> How would that interact with find-args-history?
>
> Sorry, I don't understand the question. What does prefix arg have to
> do with history? Maybe I'm missing something.
Currently, `find-dired' stores the `completing-read' history for `args' in
`find-args-history'. It also stores the value for `args' in `find-args'
to use as the default for the next `find-dired' interactive call.
If we were to make `global-args' accessible interactively, how would the
history for it be stored? The obvious solution would be to add a
completing-read for `global-args' and create `find-global-args-history'
and `find-global-args' variables to be treated similarly to
`find-args-history' and `find-args' are now.
There are two issues with this.
First, consider what the user would do if they want to repeat a
`find-dired' with `global-args' three calls in the past:
C-u M-x find-dired RET
some/directory RET
M-p M-p M-p RET ; going back three items in the history for args
M-p M-p M-p RET ; going back three items in the history for global-args
This is a poor user experience.
Second, if the user mistakenly omits the C-u, then they might run a
previous command without the global-args that were supplied.
Consider if the user runs find-dired like so:
C-u M-x find-dired RET
some/dir RET
-some -query RET
-maxdepth 3 RET
Then the user wants to repeat the query for another directory:
M-x find-dired RET
other/dir RET
M-p RET ; get previous input, M-p can be omitted since there's a default
Because the user didn't supply the C-u, the "-maxdepth 3" is omitted.
Even though it was the user's intent to repeat the last query, the user
is now running a fundamentally different query. Again, this is a poor
user experience.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-03 1:12 bug#46884: 27.1; Cannot run find-dired with -maxdepth Allen Li
2021-03-03 1:20 ` bug#46884: [PATCH] " Allen Li
2021-03-03 3:38 ` Allen Li
2021-03-03 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 8:22 ` Allen Li
2021-03-03 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 4:50 ` Allen Li [this message]
2021-03-04 9:35 ` Juri Linkov
2021-03-05 3:21 ` Allen Li
2021-03-05 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-12 8:08 ` Allen Li
2021-03-12 15:49 ` bug#46884: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-13 0:42 ` Allen Li
2021-03-13 1:09 ` Drew Adams
2021-03-13 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-13 9:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-13 21:38 ` Allen Li
2021-03-13 21:53 ` Juri Linkov
2021-03-14 0:40 ` Allen Li
2021-03-18 18:52 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-19 23:55 ` bug#46884: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-26 3:54 ` Allen Li
2022-06-27 7:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-04 13:53 ` bug#46884: [PATCH] " Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 9:03 ` Juri Linkov
2021-03-03 15:42 ` bug#46884: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-03 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 1:34 ` bug#46884: [External] : bug#46884: " Drew Adams
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