From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: vianchielfaura@gmail.com, 29465@debbugs.gnu.org, tino.calancha@gmail.com
Subject: bug#29465: 25.3; Confusing message for dired-do-shell-command substitution
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:36:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mv323kvx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29b407d1-e1f6-4676-a686-ccdf19af8bb4@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:20:38 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:20:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 29465@debbugs.gnu.org, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
>
> IF we feel it helps a user to prompt about something,
> and IF we feel there is a possibility that some users
> might not understand the prompt, in spite of our best
> efforts to come up with a good prompt, and IF we feel
> that understanding the prompt is important, THEN the
> doc string should make clear whatever it is that it
> is important that users understand about that prompting.
>
> It's quite possible for a user not to understand even
> a good prompt. S?he should be able to get the point
> by doing `C-h f', in that case.
The doc string already attempts to do that:
`*' and `?' when not surrounded by whitespace nor `\\=`' have no special
significance for `dired-do-shell-command', and are passed through
normally to the shell, but you must confirm first.
We could make the intent of the confirmation even more clear, e.g.
`*' and `?' when not surrounded by whitespace nor `\\=`' have no special
significance for `dired-do-shell-command', and are passed through
normally to the shell, but you must confirm first, to avoid
inadvertently passing a wildcard to a shell command, which would cause
that command to act on more files than you intended.
Is anything else needed to make this prompt's intent more clear?
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 7:16 bug#29465: 25.3; Confusing message for dired-do-shell-command substitution Allen Li
2017-11-27 7:34 ` Allen Li
2017-11-27 9:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-27 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-28 3:50 ` Tino Calancha
2017-11-28 8:25 ` Allen Li
2017-11-28 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-28 20:13 ` Allen Li
2017-11-29 4:20 ` Drew Adams
2017-12-01 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-02 6:31 ` Allen Li
2017-12-02 7:32 ` Tino Calancha
2017-12-02 8:22 ` Allen Li
2022-03-22 16:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-11-28 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2017-12-01 15:42 ` Drew Adams
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