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From: Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25807@debbugs.gnu.org, Colin <my.old.email.sucked@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#25807: 24.5; List-Directory closes with error when invalid path is typed instead of prompting the user to fix it
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 20:28:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871stldulp.fsf@luca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mvdbsmi6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:15:45 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> [...] We are looking for a way to reject non-existing directories, but
> accept existing ones and wildcards, when the user types RET in these
> cases.

I think in order to do that we would have to figure out whether a given
filename expands to some existing filenames or not, and this also for
handled ones.  The last part of which seems to be difficult.

A more simpler and less general approach would be the addition of a
user-option, i.e.  list-directory-use-wildcards.

-ap





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-25 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-20  6:20 bug#25807: 24.5; List-Directory closes with error when invalid path is typed instead of prompting the user to fix it Colin
2017-02-24 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-04 10:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-25 16:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-25 19:28   ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2017-03-25 19:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 19:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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