From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: Re: shell-mode flakey
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:31:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsrba5jp.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k5ncrn57.fsf@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (Roland Winkler's message of "Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:19:32 +0100")
Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> When I discussed this some time ago with one of the bash
> maintainers, he said that he had just recovered all files of a
> colleague who had typed "rm foo *" instead of "rm foo*". For those
> and only those cases I'd like to have a reliable interactive query
> before rm will do its job.
One simple possibility might be a "--query-if-multiple" option, which
would act like -i if there was more than one command-line filename
argument.
That wouldn't help for all cases, but I think it would catch a large
proportion of common typos...
-Miles
--
`There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
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2007-12-18 5:24 ` shell-mode flakey [was Re: message-confirm-send] jidanni
[not found] ` <mailman.5147.1197955487.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-18 16:19 ` shell-mode flakey Roland Winkler
2007-12-18 19:51 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-12-19 0:31 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-12-19 0:54 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-19 2:22 ` Russ Allbery
[not found] ` <mailman.5185.1198024311.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-19 16:25 ` Sven Joachim
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