From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome?
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 04:44:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zn343792.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CDv1o-0004yR-2X@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 02 Oct 2004 21:19:08 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> But then Juri pointed out that several other problems needed to be
> solved before this could be implemented. I believe you then decided
> that these other problems should be solved.
>
> Can you find what those other problems were?
> Do they apply to the precise proposal which is to do this with ?,
> rather than with *?
The main problem I see is that special text properties may not be
visible to the user (remember the recent problem with help-argument-name
where italics is not displayed in some fonts). It makes this feature
quite dangerous if the command doesn't do what the user sees on the
command line in the minibuffer.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-03 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 18:30 ! in Dired--what was the outcome? Richard Stallman
2004-09-21 19:48 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2004-09-22 1:44 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-09-22 2:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-03 1:19 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-03 1:44 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2004-10-04 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-04 15:41 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-04 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-04 17:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-04 2:43 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-05 18:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-06 23:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-07 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-12 15:12 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-13 3:01 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13 8:40 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14 0:43 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-14 8:26 ` Johan Vromans
2004-10-14 9:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-14 9:56 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-14 16:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-15 10:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-15 18:06 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-16 13:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-14 23:30 ` Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-15 4:13 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-15 8:12 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14 8:56 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14 9:45 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-14 23:48 ` Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-15 8:15 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-13 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
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