From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 35360@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35360: 26.2; Default bindings of `A' and `Q' in Dired, for MS Windows users
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:13:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wojm73gh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92c7d2aa-1f2a-4902-af26-e322d4b5d8dd@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:58:41 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:58:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 35360@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > If you think that discussing ways to fix the problem for Windows users
> > who don't have 'find' and 'grep' does not belong to this bug report,
> > then why did you file this bug report? Isn't fixing the problem the
> > goal of this report? If not, what is its goal?
>
> Certainly if you do fix the problem in the way suggested
> by Michael then this bug report will also be taken care of.
>
> But this need not wait to be fixed that way - it need not
> wait (how long?) for such a complete solution.
If you, or someone else, submit a fix soon, then the problem will be
solved soon. I don't know how to fix the problem sooner than a patch
for it is available.
> We have, essentially, a regression. There are simple ways
> to work around it - while waiting for the more complete
> solution that Michael suggests. My suggestion is to do one
> of those things _until or unless_ the more complete solution
> is available. Let's not just leave things broken until then.
We don't want to use the workaround you suggested, because it's a step
backward.
> In any case, I'm happy and grateful to hear that you intend
> to fix this correctly.
That should have been clear since the first response to your bug
report.
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2019-04-22 9:58 ` bug#35360: 26.2; Default bindings of `A' and `Q' in Dired, for MS Windows users Drew Adams
2019-04-22 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-04-21 13:47 Drew Adams
2019-04-21 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-21 19:25 ` Michael Albinus
2019-04-21 19:53 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-22 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
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