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Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired"
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired" |
Date: |
27 Aug 2004 19:25:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> My '' suggestion wanted to implement a similar trick for the opposite
> problem, where one wants ? to be expanded without having to surround
> it by whitespace.
>
> I see.
>
> But I am not so sure about my suggestion any more. Some users might
> currently be using ?'' or *'' instead of the suggested ?"" or *"" to
> prevent expansion by Emacs and insert an isolated ? or * as a
> wildcard.
>
> We need not hesitate to make incompatible changes in little
> interactive commands like this. The question is what interface is
> best to use.
Bind * to insert a text-propertied (and thus recognizable and
copy&pastable) x character with the display property of "<filename>".
If people really need * itself, they can insert it using C-q *.
Other keybindings might be imaginable.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", (continued)
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/23
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/25
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/27
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired",
David Kastrup <=
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/27
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/28
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Juri Linkov, 2004/08/29
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/30
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/25
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Kim F. Storm, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Kim F. Storm, 2004/08/27
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/27