From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 9361@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9361: 24.0.50; default value of `dired-do-chmod'
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:07:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h5b2mdp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874o0fv085.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:20:58 +0300")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> Please don't insert the default value as initial input.
> Most of the time, users type short symbolic modes that
> add/remove permissions on one user part such as "a=rw" or "go-w".
> It would be annoying for them to delete initial input
> before typing symbolic modes.
Fair enough; deleted.
>> STANDARD-VALUE, if non-nil, should be a \"standard\" value or
>> list of such values, available via history commands.
>
> STANDARD-VALUE is non-standard terminology. According to
> `read-from-minibuffer' it's named DEFAULT-VALUE.
I don't like DEFAULT-VALUE, because it's not the default returned by
empty input. But I guess we should be consistent with
read-from-minibuffer, so I changed it. We should revisit this issue at
some point (in read-from-minibuffer too).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-14 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 16:10 bug#9361: 24.0.50; default value of `dired-do-chmod' Drew Adams
2011-08-24 18:45 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-11 2:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 15:00 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-11 21:41 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-12 11:49 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-12 20:47 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-14 11:20 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-14 15:07 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-09-14 15:54 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-12 11:39 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-12 14:45 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-26 16:27 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-27 1:38 ` Juri Linkov
2012-01-27 3:04 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-27 7:24 ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-27 12:09 ` Juri Linkov
2012-01-27 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-27 15:42 ` Drew Adams
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