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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: jet@gyve.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired"
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:02:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c48766$Blat.v2.2.2$22ea2240@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408210040.i7L0eCT04605@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:40:12 -0500 (CDT))

> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:40:12 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
> 
>       * If the command string contains `?' surrounded by whitespace, the
> 	current file name is substituted for `?'.  You can use `?' this
> 	way more than once in the command, and each occurrence is
> 	replaced.  For instance, here is how to uuencode each file, making
> 	the output file name by appending `.uu' to the input file name:
> 
> 	     uuencode ? ? > ?.uu
> 
>    ?.uu is surrounded by whitespace. So above command line generated an
>    unexpected file.
> 
> You mean that the third ? is _not_ surrounded by whitespace?  I indeed
> believe that the example is wrong.  The third ? is not substituted
> and the output goes to a file named ?.uu.

I think we had better fix the code instead of removing the example.
It seems a pity that the example doesn't work.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-21 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-20 19:08 info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired" Masatake YAMATO
2004-08-21  0:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-21  6:38   ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-08-21 20:18     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-22 16:52       ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-21 20:35     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-22  3:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-22  4:05         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-21 20:40     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-21 21:24     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-21 10:02   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-08-21 16:50 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-21 17:12   ` David Kastrup
2004-08-21 22:49     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-21 23:08       ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-21 23:12         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-22  4:17           ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-08-22  7:11             ` David Kastrup
2004-08-22 12:33               ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-08-22 12:59                 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-22 14:00                   ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-08-22 12:43             ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-08-22 15:31               ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-22 16:03                 ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-08-22 19:46                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-25  4:41                     ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-08-22 15:00             ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-22 15:39               ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-08-23 23:26       ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-25 22:36         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-26  4:52           ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-26 21:16             ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-27 16:59               ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-27 17:25                 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-27 17:49                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-28 16:48                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-29 20:33                     ` Juri Linkov
2004-08-30 16:05                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-25 23:10         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-26  7:28           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-08-26 14:53             ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-08-26 20:53             ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-27  7:21               ` Kim F. Storm
2004-08-28  1:35                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-22 16:52     ` Richard Stallman

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