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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: dired-x 'mother knows best' shell guess attitude |
Date: | Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:31:28 -0600 |
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Dan Jacobson wrote:
Gentlemen, isn't emacs rather rude when it second guesses the user's idea of a good command to run: $ mkdir x; cd x; touch a.tar $ emacs -l dired-x . ! w c RET ! ESC p It now already knows I want to use wc. However it insists mother knows best and still offers tar.
Yes, M-p should put "wc" in the minibuffer. "tar xvf" should be available via M-n.
I could have already used wc 1000 times and it still wouldn't get a hint about what I like. Worse yet is when there are several of its "better choices", not just one. In this case we have to plod thru each one of those with ESC p till we get to the one we just used, now way in the back of the bus. E.g. for .dvi, see dired-guess-shell-alist-default. Note, if I used wc on tar files, and sum on cpio files, then if I am on a cpio file, it should prompt like: sum, cpio -iv <, wc In that order, I suppose.
Interesting idea. Why don't you implement it? -- <a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
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