From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome? Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:45:47 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vfdgezro.fsf@jurta.org> <200410130301.i9D31GM02856@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097747235 31676 80.91.229.6 (14 Oct 2004 09:47:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, Luc Teirlinck , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 14 11:47:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CI2CR-0006mu-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:47:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CI2JW-0005g9-6L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CI2JO-0005g4-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CI2JN-0005fs-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CI2JN-0005fp-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CI2BI-0008CJ-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:45:57 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 48629 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2004 09:45:54 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 14 Oct 2004 09:45:54 -0000 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:56:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28382 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28382 David Kastrup writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Maybe I should mention a possible simpler solution, proposed in >> private email by Johan Vromans to use {} instead of ?, in analogy with >> the -exec argument of find(1). >> >> mv {} .{}.uu >> >> That could be a good idea. It would only cause a problem if you >> are trying to run `find'. I guess you could use "{}" to pass >> that argument to `find'; by the time `find' sees it, the quotes >> will have been removed. >> >> Does anyone see a problem with this? > > I think {} should be replaced by the file name, period. That's simple > to understand. If you really need {}, you can quote one of the two > characters, like '{'} or {\}. > I agree. However, if we really need a special syntax to insert {} literally, we could use {{}}. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk